Richard Reeves

They weren't sure.

They couldn't make up their mind.

And they were just kind of a bit sick of the left and sick of some of the language they were getting from the left and didn't really see anything for them on the left.

They didn't see much from the Democrats.

I mean, this is, at this point, a little bit of a fable, although it's true.

So fable is the wrong metaphor.

But the Democrats famously have a website that says who they stand for.

If you go to their website now, you'll see it.

It's like who we stand for.

And it lists various demographic groups that the party stands for.

And

me to tell you at this point in the conversation which group do you think is missing from that.

And so I'm not suggesting that young men were going to the Democrat website and seeing that it didn't mention men.

Yeah, where am I on the list?

But it does indicate something about the way in which the

progressive side of institutions and political life somehow or other managed to convince themselves that in order to be for lots of other groups, they had to leave out or sometimes even be against men.

And that was a fatal political error, as well as, in my view, just a category error.

It depends which bit of it we're talking about, honestly.

I mean, they live online, right?

They live in an algorithmic online world, right?