The Return of the Democratic Manly Man

Russell Berman: “Closing the gender gap now seems to be an official electoral strategy for Democrats. A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats’ effort to ‘win back the manosphere.'”

“The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who ‘are engaging culturally in male spaces’—a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean ‘manly men,’ or perhaps ‘guy’s guys,’ but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party’s problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn’t describe himself as ‘engaging culturally in male spaces.'”