Some liberal parents believe that their sons are not simply indifferent to their woke worldview, but are actually leaning strongly in the opposite direction, donning their MAGA hats and promoting land recognition, Some have found themselves turning their backs on climate alarmism, false pronouns, DEI, and depopulationist rhetoric. An attack on masculinity.
new york times ran Sunday's sob-filled article titled “When Your Son Becomes MAGA” details how progressives are finding it increasingly difficult to speak to the young people who voted for President Donald Trump. .
For example, Alex Baer, a 59-year-old Democrat from Portland, Oregon, who “enthusiastically voted” for Kamala Harris, said that until she split from her ex-husband, her son was “a thoughtful college student who took up skateboarding seriously.” I thought he was a freshman. I created “Horrifying”[ing]”They discovered that 20-year-old Eli, whom they adopted from China, had a mind of his own.
Apparently, Alex Behr's strategy of throwing down his son's “Make America Great Again” hat, saying “the facts don't matter to you,” and harshly criticizing his son's views on guns, immigration, and abortion is working. Apparently there wasn't. Eli Behr voted for Trump.
Alex Behr is concerned about her son being exposed to political views other than her own, saying, “I have to look at myself and read a lot about it so I don't feel like I've failed as a mother.'' There wasn't,” he told the Times.
While his mother tries to blame his overbearing reflexes in therapy sessions, Eli seems unfazed.
“I love my mom,” Eli told the paper, which suggests he's refraining from donning a MAGA hat to her as an act of kindness. “I want her to continue to be a part of the family.”
The Times reported the story of another left-wing couple's supposed bereavement, that of Chris and Melanie Moran of Spokane, Washington.
All seemed to be going well for the Moran family when their son was still parroting their political views. But as Black Lives Matter mobs and other leftists began tearing apart coastal cities in 2020, my son began to show disdain for feminism, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and, even more troubling, support for Trump. He reportedly started listening to a YouTube channel that suggested.
The 24-year-old was ultimately drawn to the Republican Party “as a champion of more traditional notions of masculinity,” CNN talking head Dana Bash alluded to at the Democratic National Convention in August. Republicans suggested otherwise, and Democrats were courting “testosterone-filled, gun-toting guys” like Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz. I'm a woman. ”
When family therapist Melanie Moran realized she had lost her son to traditional masculine practices, she asked herself, “Who got my son?”
Melanie Moran was keen to patronize her son, who voted for Trump in 2024, but took a more diplomatic approach than Baer.
“All you're doing is destroying the earth. You have to eat the peas.”
“I always tell him, 'I might be worried about you, and I might be sad because there are things in the future that you don't understand,'” Moreland told the Times. “'But I love you more when you're hurting, because that's just politics.'”
In 2020, 41% of men aged 18-29 I voted For Trump. Four years later, that number had jumped to 55%. This surge shouldn't surprise anyone.
Democratic strategist James Carville noted in an interview with the Times a few months before the election that the left was doing a great job of alienating hot-blooded American men.
“'Don't drink beer. Don't watch soccer. Don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you,'” Carville said. “The message is too feminine: 'All you're doing is destroying the planet. You have to eat the peas.'”
As Carville pointed out, the left's “faculty lounge” attitude and “feminine” frowns associated with “wokeness” proved to be poison at the ballot box, but this country 's capital had other motives than leftist chatter.
The same month, The Guardian noticed The rightward shift of young people has been fueled not only by society-wide feminism that painted them as monsters, but also by their corresponding push out of higher education and into economic insecurity and depression. It is said that it was done.
“This is about young men being pushed from the left rather than being pulled to the right,” said Richard Reeves, president of the American Association for Boys and Men.
“Economically [men under 30 are] “They're politically stigmatized and culturally no one cares about them,” said Daniel A. Cox, director of the Center for the Study of American Life at the American Enterprise Institute. said The Times in August suggested that Trump was offering a bailout and an alternative.
Alex Baer and Melanie Moran wonder what it was about Trump and MAGA that attracted their sons. Maybe we should ask what it is about our leftist worldview that doesn't hurt or repel us in the first place.
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