Real Men Reject Fascism

How do you reach the men who are supporting a fascist presidential candidate, to avoid “dude-bro-ing our way into democratic death“ and curtail a wider eugenics revival? Focus on the “affective dimension” of the problem because, as has been stated clearly elsewhere, policy alone isn’t moving people. “A lot of what a lot of men are going through right now is simply the inner experience of the old line, ‘When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression’… one of the great sweeping mistakes of our era has been assuming that, because certain kinds of change are morally correct, they go down easy… (men) need to feel seen and heard and recognized in their stress and anxiety and sense of dislocation in the future that is coming… Saving the country from tyranny needs to become aspirational for men. Not a lecture.”