Young Men Love Trump And Hate Women—What Happened To Them?

They've Been Red Pilled

I am deeply afraid for voters I’m calling Trump’s Lost Boys. I’m talking all of those 20something white males who voted for him because his brand of toxic masculinity fits with theirs. “The bottom line,” one 26-year-old Republican said, “when Trump was president, he acted like a man.” Men under 30, Gen Z men, went for Trump in a big way and this is a frightening omen for the future of American men.

These young men are deeply influenced by what they feel is a crisis of masculinity—because of the economy they can’t see a future where they can provide and many of them can’t get dates or sex. All of this, plus the training they’re getting online, makes them anti-feminist. These are men who are heavily online—they get most of their news online and they report that they find the online world much more satisfying than the real world. They are heavily influenced by what’s called the manosphere—all those sites, podcasts, and online forums that promote toxic masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism. Think Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Fresh and Fit, Tim Pool and many, many more. There’s a lot of toxic masculinity influencers who are spreading the message that men should be dominant and women are lesser and there’s millions of young men who listen to them and trust them. These men feel like women should be beneath them but increasingly they aren’t. To these young men, the rise in woke culture and cancel culture is highly threatening and the seeming rush to lift marginalized groups feels like a loss for them. Trump was their way of fighting back.