How Republicans Lost Men

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For all the utterly tortured analysis of why Democrats can’t seem to crack the code for appealing to white guys who hate women and resent people of color and equate freedom with saying the r-slur online, there’s been no exploration or explanation for why Republicans are hemorrhaging men’s support ahead of the 2026 midterms. Become a Bad Faith Times supporter today and get access to BFT videos and podcasts , along with the BFT discord community, where we talk politics, sports, movies, music, and other stuff. This could be explained, I think, by one of the unspoken rules in mainstream media coverage of American politics: Republicans win men, Democrats win women, and this arrangement makes sense because Republicans are dad and Democrats are mom . File this unspoken rule alongside another classic: Nothing can ever be good for Democrats and nothing can ever be bad for Republicans. So it goes. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .