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If young men want to be racist, but no seen as racist - how do you appeal to that?
I don't think the premise is correct. I don't think young men especially want to be racist. Rather, I think that young men mostly don't have the cultural capital that the modern Democratic party requires you to have to not be racist. It's not enough to just not care whether someone's white or black - there's a whole host of behaviors, positions on issues, and language you have to observe in order for the progressive base of the party to deem you to not be racist. And I think a lot of young men - and especially non-college young men - don't have that.
And looking at racism almost completely misses the point. Democrats aren't losing young men because of race. They're losing them because of gender. Democrats have adopted a set of policy priorities (not positions - priorities) around taking care of women. "The future is female."
That's not going to appeal to a lot of younger men. Either to their self interest, or their sense of fairness. Older men (like me, sigh) live in a world where women definitely still exhibit signs of worse economic outcomes. But young men live in a different immediate environment. Girls are kicking boys' butts in school. Girls do better in school all throughout primary education. There's a massive gender gap in academic performance. The overwhelming majority of high school valedictorians (~70%) are female. 60% of college students are female - and more of the female college students will graduate than the male ones.
Young men didn't rally around Trump because they were looking for racism and saw it in him. They rallied around Trump because they were looking for someone who didn't think that "the future is female," and saw that in him. That he fundamentally rejects what they perceive as the feminine orientation of progressivism generally, and the Democrats specifically.
