General Discussion

The race to be the bigger victim is a losing one for Democrats, but it is a debate that Trump and MAGA LOVE to have. And by attacking men, it means we are also attacking everyone in their families, which is why Democrats get slaughtered now with white working class women. Also, a party of college graduates telling people in some dying, working class, small city in the Midwest, where the population and inflation adjusted per capita income has been declining for 50 years, that they need to check their privilege is better advertising for Trump than anything MAGA can come up with. It should be hard for Democrats to lose Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa, but amazingly we have done it multiple times in the last 10 years, and Ohio and Iowa, who both voted for a black President twice, are not even swing states anymore. We have much better policies for these states, but are getting killed in the messaging war.

Democrats are also losing ground with black working class men and especially with Latino working class men. If Democrats had held their margins with Latino men that Obama had, Hillary Clinton would have just wrapped up her second term and we would be on a 5th straight term of Democrats in the White House and have a 20+ seat advantage in the House. And to preempt any silly retorts to this, I am not blaming them for voting Republican. I am blaming the terrible messaging from a small corner of the Democratic Party, that Republicans amplify, for them voting Republican.

Most of my family is biracial, and 60% of the non-college educated males in my family vote Republican now. All of these Republican male voters in my family are under 40, so they have a lot of votes left in them. Telling them that they are the problem does not sound like a winning pitch to swing them to the Blue team.

Furthermore, Democrats are rapidly gaining ground with college educated men, particularly in the suburbs, so why is a big chunk of the party attacking them?

Attacking men for being men is just dumb politics, and is also very un-liberal. It is such a bad strategy that I question whether those high profile progressives advocating it even want Democrats to win or just want a soapbox to stand on and blame others for the party's failure. FWIW, AOC uses much more inclusive language, but I guess she is not a good progressive either.