Adam Serwer

And I think it's, I think it's there.

And I think I would repeat the assessment that it has less to do with liberal or moderate in a desire for the democratic party to show some fight.

I think, you know, with the voting rights act stuff, I mean, I mean, I think there's just a sense that the democratic party has been so afraid of the Republican base that it has not defended its own base.

Democrats are extremely hungry for politicians who are willing to do that, whether or not they're liberal or moderate, but people who are willing to stand up for sort of these bedrock principles of democracy and equality.

Just as someone who, you know, on social media gets a lot of content from fitness spaces.

We have people churning out the dumbest, doomerist reactionary content ever.

day after day, aimed at this demographic.

This idea that everybody hates you, girls aren't going to respect you if you can't bench 225, they don't give a shit about that.

You know what I'm saying?

There's this sort of creation of this, Naomi Klein in her book, she calls it the mirror world.

This sort of mirror world where

white men are oppressed and everybody wants to take their rights and privileges away from them and i think to some extent this is a product of economic dislocation you know in the sense that like we have a service economy in which you know a lot of the the jobs growing are female coded service jobs but you know trump has actually made that worse

You know, in terms of like all those manly jobs that he said he was going to bring back with his manufacturing, trucking, all this stuff.

He's made those markets worse with his tariffs.

Because I think there is to an extent there is like it's not so much the producing the jobs that matters, but the signaling about this sort of traditional manliness that these that some of these guys feel like they have been denied.

Yeah.

And the answer that they're being given from this sort of male doomer industry is that if you take away other people's rights and choices, that the paradise that your granddads lived in will come back.

And it's nonsense.

It's just not true.

It's not even really economically possible.