Hannah Rosen

Last night, Trump gave Americans an update on the war in Iran.

Trump is addressing the nation at a time when Americans are not that happy about the war.

According to a recent Pew poll, 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the way things are going.

And then there are gas prices.

I saw a station this week in D.C.

selling gas for $5 a gallon, which has apparently been common in a few states.

I'm Hannah Rosen.

This is Radio Atlantic.

A big question right now is how discontent over the war will affect the midterm elections.

And there is one important demographic that's becoming increasingly discontented.

That's a clip of Andrew Schultz from the Flagrant podcast, one of the many influential Manosphere podcasts.

Leading up to the 2024 election, Schultz and a lot of his fellow Manfluencers were warming to Trump.

Schultz announced back then that he was voting for him.

Younger, not that ideological, not necessarily white.

Definitely not woke.

They are a rare demographic that a political pollster might call soft, possibly persuadable, definitely prone to apathy.

So what does their shift away from Trump mean for MAGA, for the Republicans, maybe even for the Democrats?

We talked to political reporter Elaine Godfrey, who's been tracking a lot of Manosphere podcasts lately and noticing this shift.

So you are tuning into them as a microcosm of the general national sentiment, not because you've discovered the manosphere.

And listeners meaning voters.