How Science Explains Trump's Grip on White Males

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6. The Guardian had a good article on this

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2024/oct/25/i-visited-jd-vances-hometown-heres-what-i-learned-about-young-male-voters

“The Republican party right now is doing a really wonderful job of faking relationships,” he says. The emails he receives from the Trump campaign – which he signed up to for research purposes – often start with exuberant personal messages such as “I need you” or “I can’t do it without you”. “It’s ingenuine,” Wilder says, recognising that some in his congregation – which splits about 50/50 on party lines – have “fallen into the trap … Men’s health is something we overlook in America. Men want to be part of something – to feel like they belong.”

Understanding the psyop-type manipulation that the Right is pursuing is essential to overcoming it. The rich have been fostering racism and misogyny for hundreds of years as a power strategy. I know good decent men who have fallen victim to the Foxaganda that's difficult for them to escape, especially since the fairness doctrine got killed.