DANIEL A. COX: [young people] are more Republican now but not necessarily because they shifted to the right on issues like climate change or abortion or same-sex marriage. They are still well to the left of their dads and grandfathers when it comes to that stuff

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Left to right on the panel are Daniel A. Cox, Magdalene Taylor, Clay Travis, and Hanna Rosin. 

00:00 DANIEL COX.  Young men have not become much more conservative, at least according to Gallup, but they have become more Republican.  They have not identified as more conservative but they are becoming more Republican.  So from the Obama era, many men and women were Democrats.  For both elections, strong majorities of young men and young women voted for Barack Obama.  And then you had a slow decline.  This didn't just happen in just one election. There has been a deterioration of Democratic identity among young men for over 10 years.  

Yes, they are more Republican now but not necessarily because they shifted to the right on issues like climate change or abortion or same-sex marriage.  They are still well to the left of their dads and grandfathers when it comes to that stuff.  And so you have this really interesting situation where this group looks on paper fairly liberal in a lot of ways.  And then in point of fact, you had 6 in 10 young men who are moderates but voted for Trump, and more than 1 in 5 liberal young men voted for Trump.  If we are going to look for explanations we need to move Beyond issues we need to understand that there is something about Trump that was attractive and then there was something about the Democratic Party at least in its current manifestation that was repellent.

01:30.  MAGDALENE.  I was really struck by you saying even if they are more likely to identify as Republicans they are still far more liberal than the men of generations before them and I think that that is something that would surprise a lot of young women like myself to hear that I was surprised.

01:48.  What is it that we are missing?  Why do people not understand why?

01:57.  CLAY TRAVIS.  Men aspire to be bigger, stronger, and faster than we are almost universally.  That's why superheroes are popular.  That's why pro athletes are popular.  Who is the most masculine Democrat right now in America?  Mayor Pete [Buttigieg]?  Nobody is like "Mayor Pete, he's a badass." Chuck Schumer?  Is anybody like, hey, Chuck Schumer holding up an avocado and a beer, talking about the Super Bowl.  Is anybody like that trying to grill?  Is anybody like hey that's the dude I want to hang out with I want to hang out with?  

ROSIN.  But Trump is like a grandpa.

TRAVIS. Well hold on.  Trump took a bullet in his ear and immediately stood up and said "Fight!  Fight! Fight!" every man in America and most of the women were impressed by that, even if the women won't admit it.  She's shaking her head.  Shrong.  The second part of this, basically summing it up, Democrats for men are pussies and Republicans aren't.  There no masculine men in the Democrat Party right now.