Democrats have a serious problem with men. We saw it during the 2024 election, as men abandoned the Democrat Party in droves and voted for Trump and Vance.
The reasons for this are pretty obvious. The left has been demonizing men for years, calling masculinity ‘toxic.’ At a certain point, men began getting the message that they are not welcome in the Democrat Party and they left.
The liberal media knows this and is going to try to help the Democrats if they can. That’s what this Atlantic article is all about.
The Democratic manly man is back, @russellberman reports, with the party embracing masculinity as a campaign strategy. https://t.co/HeaoyjKAQT
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) July 12, 2026
From the piece:
Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. “There’s nothing wrong with being masculine,” Poindexter told me. It’s okay, he said, to be “a manly man.”
Poindexter’s own manliness credentials are fully in order. The 46-year-old started working in a machine shop as a teenager and spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker. He drives a Ram Big Horn pickup truck and built, with his buddy turned campaign manager, a shed in his backyard. Now Poindexter is running for Congress, trying to flip a Republican-held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democratic Party over the past two decades: men…
Critiques such as Poindexter’s have gelled into a consensus over the past two years, repeated ad nauseam by starchy senators and governors with an eye toward running for president in 2028. Closing the gender gap now seems to be an official electoral strategy for Democrats. A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats’ effort to “win back the manosphere.” The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who “are engaging culturally in male spaces”—a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean “manly men,” or perhaps “guy’s guys,” but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party’s problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn’t describe himself as “engaging culturally in male spaces.”
Does everyone remember the famous ad featuring Men for Kamala? How did that go over?
Turns out, this ad DID NOT get men to vote for Kamala Harris. Shocker. pic.twitter.com/oQZQylN6YJ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 6, 2024
It’s all so forced.
And the cycle repeats. By forcing masculinity politically, you push a watered-down, sociopathic version of YOUR idea of masculinity. Your candidate either has it or they don’t.
TLDR: Masculinity in politics can’t be manufactured like the Democrats continually think. pic.twitter.com/gAbOQ597l4
— Lanta (@HeyLanta) July 14, 2026
The media needs to go back to the drawing board. This piece from the Atlantic is just not going to solve the problem.
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