Our society has left young American men behind – villainizing them as toxic and openly discriminating against them – even as countless numbers strive to do the right thing. Increasingly, they face dwindling job opportunities, struggle to start families, and endure a culture that often seems to stigmatize traditional masculinity.

Politically, President Trump has built a coalition that has appealed to these disaffected young men, arguing that the system is rigged against them and that the "forgotten man" has been sacrificed to satisfy the interests of a globalist elite.

The blame for this is often pointed at a shift in our national institutions. Education, particularly higher education, has adopted political and cultural sensibilities that eschew traditional masculine traits like strength. Hollywood, too, has largely replaced iconic alpha-male roles with characters that young men say feel inauthentic to them today. In agrarian and even early industrial eras, men’s superior strength and stamina meant they could always put food on the table, but the “soft social” skills of the office have become the primary currency in a post- industrial age.

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