Inside the online offensive that turned out a new generation of men for Trump

[TomCADem]

Progressives, including many on this Board, dismissed the growing man-o-sphere echo chamber that has grown in the right, which caters to the resentment by men of the gains of women, particularly in areas such as enrollment in college where a majority of college graduates are now women.

This lack of awareness of this echo chamber is compounded by the outdates assumption that most people get their news and information from traditional media. On the Board, you still see people blaming the traditional media for failing to point out how unstable or racist Trump is, when that is all you hear when you read non-conservative media. Conversely, progressives have dismissed the growing population of social media influencers like Andrew Tate or Joe Rogan, who have millions of mostly male listeners. To them, Trump is a martyr for men who believe that the advancement of women is a threat to the success of men. These influencers push the idea that allegations of sexual misconduct are fabrications designed to oppress men like Trump, Johnny Depp, Sean Combs, and Matt Gaetz, and that successful are entitled to treat women not as people but as trophies. The question for progressives and women is how to communicate to the millions of young men who have fallen into the rabbit hole of misogynistic social media, because running commercials on TV and interviews on cable news just is not going to do it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/10/trump-voters-gen-z-memes-podcasts-joe-rogan/

President-elect Donald Trump’s road back to the White House weaved through testosterone-fueled corners of the internet, breaking from the circuit of daytime talk shows and local radio broadcasts.

Trump flexed his arms with podcasting National Football League players and chatted about aliens with YouTube wrestler Logan Paul. He served the Nelk Boys Chick-fil-A on his private jet “Trump Force One,” calling the group of YouTube pranksters a “modern-day Johnny Carson.” He riffed on surviving a July assassination attempt with the four-man comedy team behind “Flagrant,” a raunchy podcast that promises to deliver “unruly hot takes directly to your dome piece.”

The resulting memes, TikTok posts and YouTube videos landed Trump millions of views online — part of a sprawling online strategy that gave him a direct line to a giant fan base of young American men.

While many political strategists once viewed this group as liberal by default, young men between the ages of 18 and 29 swung enormously for Trump, shifting rightward by eight percentage points since 2020, according to network exit polls.