It’s Not Very Difficult To Understand Why Trump Is So Popular Among Men

The Left still fails to grasp why Donald Trump is so popular with young men, even though it’s not that complicated.

Perhaps it is because the Left refuses to look deep at itself and acknowledge widespread failure, on an institutional level, to appeal to men, or at the very least, refrain from attacking them as toxic, privileged, and evil. A recent New York Times opinion article perfectly displays their willful ignorance and failure to scrutinize themselves.

Writing in The Times on Monday, John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, chalks up Trump’s popularity among men to some special sauce, some mystical Alpha voodoo, some “bro whispering” that the former president deploys to ensnare and enchant dudes. (Click HERE to sign up for Mr. Right’s weekly newsletter)

“His playbook? A master class in bro whispering: championing crypto, securing the endorsement of Dave Portnoy — the unapologetically offensive founder of Barstool Sports — and giving the U.F.C. president, Dana White, who embodies the alpha-male archetype that appeals to many young men, a prime spot at the Republican National Convention,” Della Volpe wrote.

“Mr. Trump has also cultivated relationships with simpatico comedians, pranksters, influencers and Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk — all while his team bombards podcasts and social media with misinformation and memes to rally his troops.”

Della Volpe then suggests that Kamala Harris should look to “President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 to President John F. Kennedy’s Peace Corps in 1961 to President Bill Clinton’s AmeriCorps in 1993” in order to boost civil engagement and renew the strength of American men while calming their economic fears.

“Donald Trump has gained ground with Gen Z by systematically exploiting the fears and insecurities of young men, making them feel that their masculinity and future are under siege. Kamala Harris can counter that narrative by listening and recognizing their fears but also by offering something more profound: a vision of hope, strength and shared purpose,” he wrote.

Buddy, Trump is not making them feel that their masculinity is under siege. It is under siege. It is under siege from Harris herself, from institutions like The New York Times and Harvard.

For at least a decade now, the Left has vilified men. Colleges are factories where women are manufactured into raging feminists and then shipped out to corporate HR departments where they will belittle male employees for making mildly suggestive jokes. Politicians like Harris and Walz demean men in their half-hearted, eleventh-hour attempts to win them over. Liberal media is a viper den of feminism. Outlets routinely publish trashy think pieces about why toxic masculinity is a threat to women, and why, if you don’t vote for Kamala Harris, you are misogynistic, medieval ogre. Hollywood is no different, producing movies with the same kind of feminist moral preening that has soaked through America’s newspapers. (RELATED: Kamala’s New Pro-Man Ad Immediately Demeans Men, And Offers A Twisted View Of Fatherhood)

And of course, when someone like Trump sees the vacuum, fills it, and does something positive for men, the Left and The New York Times opinion section have to frame it as some nefarious plot, a highly calculated “playbook.” No, Trump is celebrating things men love, like UFC, football, day trading, Elon Musk. He’s just being one of the boys. It’s not magical alchemy. People like Della Volpe will blame everyone and everything but themselves, and until they turn their attention to their own side, they will continue to miss the painfully obvious.