Neal Gabler essay, may explain part of what the heck is going on with young males, other than the usual.

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Thanks to another DUer who posted a link to the essay. This is an excerpt with a link at the end. Well worth reading the entire piece.

"Neal Gabler – the Manosphere and Our Country
The Agonizing Work of Art That Helps Explain Trump’s America
NEAL GABLER 04/23/25
What can “Adolescence” tell us about our country?

"One more week, a hundred more catastrophes. So it goes. But to anyone who still has the capacity to think and feel amid the maelstrom of this administration, the catastrophes seem inexplicable — logically inexplicable, morally inexplicable, and even politically inexplicable, given the fact that Trump’s shenanigans are far less likely to gain adherents than to lose them.
The tariffs that have threatened to destroy the world economy make no sense.
The abandonment of Ukraine and other American allies and the concomitant embrace of former KGB agent Vladimir Putin makes no sense.
The veneration of Adolf Hitler by large segments of the president’s support group — and by the president himself — makes no sense.
The destruction of the American government by Elon Musk’s DOGE makes no sense.
The list could go on and on. Virtually everything this administration does cannot pass the rationality test.
We continue to scratch our heads, to fumble, to jump from one theory to another in the hope of solving the puzzle and determining how a moderately tolerant society transmogrified virtually overnight into a police state that resembles North Korea. And the sensible among us are perplexed by how little resistance there has been to the transformation — indeed, how much capitulation there has been. Inexplicably.
The real question, however, is not how America lost its way. We know the mechanics of it. It lost its way in large measure because Donald Trump, a Pied Piper of malice, led it astray, though one can’t lay all of that or even most of it on Trump. The American people, nearly half of those who voted, in their infinite wisdom empowered Trump to do so. They were looking for a Trump, yearning for a Trump, to do so."

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https://nealgabler.substack.com/p/the-agonizing-work-of-art-that-helps

[Henry203]

1. Maga Men are weak

minded. They never faced any kind of discrimination or hard times. They couldn't last a day as a minority.

[Jit423]

2. Sigh....RACISM is deliberately cruel. Do we get it yet? nt

[elocs]

3. "Women emasculate men." Even men who should have voted for Harris, but didn't. n/t

[travelingthrulife]

4. In other words, men, especially white men, have been told they have to share.

Huge, ongoing hissy fit follows.

[Starbeach]

5. Entitlement

These guys lost their entitlements. And Trump is the king of entitlement.
Riches without work.
Worship without effort.

Feminists have long understood this.

[Arazi]

6. Tl:dr It's about owning the libs

I’ve read a lot of variations on this but essentially Traitor empowers these ugly souls to hate and shit on others.

[raccoon]

7. This I disagree with:

a preference that suggested white women, notably including white married women, felt some nostalgia for the good old days of patriarchy when they were consigned to servitude.

There are some white women who've always had a white man to "take care" of them financially. But IME and IMO the great majority of them don't.