Editorial: America’s political realignment is catching Democrats flat-footed

[minoanmiss]

In my latest book, “Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present,” I argue that decades of revolutionary change — the massive expansion of globalization, the information revolution — have upended our politics. We are seeing a realignment in which the old categories of economic status and race are giving way to new categories such as social status and cultural divides around gender.

later in the article it says:

More and more Black and Hispanic men are finding themselves comfortable with the Republican Party — and it’s especially pronounced with young people. A recent GenForward survey showed one-quarter of young Black men and 44 percent of young Latino men are planning on voting for Donald Trump.

... are that many young men of color really willing to vote for a longtime avowed racist just to stick it to women? Sheesh.

Comments

[ororo]

I'm seeing this reported more and more often. Many men are digging their heels into endorcing traditional gender roles for women and more women Just Ain't Having It. Women are becoming more liberal as more of them have determined they really don't need a man to be happy. This threatens the status quo and terrifies the men in question.

It's so tiring.

[ride_4ever]

I'm afraid that the answer to the question in your concluding sentence is YES. *cringe*

[bikergeek]

They think the leopards aren't going to eat their faces.

Latino people in particular are very likely to be Catholic, and a lot of African-American people are like your parents, belonging to conservative, Baptist churches. And both groups have gained access to the middle class in larger numbers in recent decades, which means that the Republican Party can bamboozle them into thinking Republican tax and fiscal policy will be good for them just like the Republicans have been doing to white folks for decades.

[amaebi]

I think that this writer is advertising his book.

I suspect him of being a king of wishful thinking.

I note the usual lack of examination or critique of white men in this context*, in favor of blaming white women and men of color.

When analysts talk about things being to the advantage of plutocrats or misogynistic men who want to own women or whatever other short-sighted thing, the short-sightedness is considerably more of an issue than the advantage/disadvantage, which it's absurd to talk about as zero-sum, but there it goes again.

Grrrrrr.

I spit in his eye.

* White male attachment to fascistic or misogynistic or racist candidates seems to be all of the Oh The Poor Babies type.

[full_metal_ox]

For my own part, I’ve been doing my damnedest to disregard the polls—which can be conducted, or even concocted, by any dang one, and manipulated in any direction—and focusing on voting for the people who are likeliest to treat their fellow humans with respect, whatever anyone else might be doing.

[amaebi]

I’m very good at ignoring the polls. Aside from statistical problems of both technique and framing, I have no use for them: I’m neither a political strategist nor a gambler.

For more solid evidence of revealed preference:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/trump-harris-donors-zip-code-map/ (Yes. It’s WaPo.)

here we are!

[minoanmiss]

another article to cry over

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gender-war-historic-gap-between-men-and-women-defines-harris-v-trump/ar-AA1sUjcw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b1a7c0c135424fa9fe63d4a73cb4a76e&ei=27

[grayestofghosts]

I'm not sure if I would say the gender divide is particularly new, more that it is only just now articulatable, if that makes sense.

[minoanmiss]

That definitely makes sense.

[sabotabby]

Absolutely wild.

But I think it's true that men feel abandoned by the replacement of a manufacturing economy with a service/gig economy. As do women, but no one apparently gives a shit what women think and no one is indulging us to feel angry about it.

[lynnenne]

Dozens of "experts" have been saying this recently, but if you look at the data, it's not true. There was a recent study in The Economist that examined changes in political attitudes in the US since the 1960s. American men are exactly as conservative as they've always been, regardless of race. It's American women who have changed. They've swung hard to the left, especially since 2016 when the United States elected a known rapist to the highest office in the country and the "Me Too" movement took off.

Women are fed up, and we're not going to put up with this abuse anymore. Now that more of us can support ourselves financially, we don't have to. But male pundits have to make it all about "men's problems" so they can sell books to their male readers. The biggest "problem" American men are facing right now is the erosion of male privilege, and that scares them shitless.

[minoanmiss]

takes notes Thank you for the broadening information, ma belle. It makes sense if this is merely reflecting the increased freedom of women and not some titanic reactionary wave of political misogyny in response.

[lynnenne]

Well, the abortion bans are definitely reactionary political misogyny. But historically, the misogyny is about the same as it ever was.

I have a whole rant about the hand-wringing over how society is supposedly failing men and boys, when in reality, what’s happening is that they now have to compete with women and girls on a more level playing field, instead of coasting through life on their mediocrity. Donald Trump is the embodiment of this. Who on god’s green earth is more mediocre than him??? That’s exactly why 53% of American men are voting for him.