Lesson from the US election is that liberals must realise young men have problems too
Lesson from the US election is that liberals must adapt their language to reflect that young men have problems too
In the run-up to the US election, one trend caught the imagination of the media more than anything: the apparent rightward drift of young American men. “Will gender divide the American election?”The consensus across pollsters seems to be broadly two-pronged: abortion shot up the roster as an electoral question in the wake of the reversal of Roe v Wade; and the US would reflect trends more general to the West, as women lean increasingly left and men stay centre or look rightward.
We have heard a lot about how generational divides used to define politics. We still see this, of course – there was plenty of intergenerational mudslinging over Covid policy . It is a constant dynamic when we talk about the hostile property market: rent is too high; boomers bought their houses so cheaply; the social contract between young and old has broken down. And then, of course, there has always been the gulf between parents and their children when it comes to questions of culture .
The right has been smart at mobilising very modern masculine anxieties. A new type of gendered language has crept in this decade: the arrival of the phrase “toxic masculinity” and the accompanying reprobation of young men and their very being. Out of this emerges a cohort of society who feel disenfranchised by the culture and unrepresented in a modern political landscape.
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