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I’m a leftist. We didn’t just lose men — we drove them to Trump

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Twentysomething writer Jordan Jantz recently did an amazing thing — she wrote a piece about her and her friends’ frustrations with modern dating, about “broken hearts and faltering dreams,” without blaming men, and without a negative reference to even one individual man. I read her piece three times just to make sure I wasn’t imagining it.

It’s not a coincidence that Jantz’s column has only appeared in conservative publications. Man-bashing is ubiquitous on the Left — I know, I’m on the Left, and I see the damage it causes.

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Democrats worry over their problems attracting male voters and ask, “Why would men vote for Trump?” Please allow me to help.

In President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural address, he said:

“Rusted-out factories [are] scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. … One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind. … We will bring back our jobs. … We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.”

As deindustrialization tore gaping holes in what had been a prosperous American working class, both political parties largely ignored it. The key to Trump’s success is not his charisma, his immigrant bashing, his “America First” nationalism, his anti-DEI and anti-transgender crusades, his pledges to “drain the swamp,” or his braggadocio and bombast. It’s that he focused on this vital issue, and pledged to reshore and restore American industries and the good-paying jobs they once provided.

The Left is incapable of acknowledging that there are any special challenges that men face as men, and thus have failed to see the particular importance of living wage jobs to men.

Try to imagine a man who is unable to earn a decent living but is........

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