MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough claimed on Friday’s Morning Joe that Democratic claims around toxic masculinity pushed male voters to Donald Trump.
Some of the analysis around the president-elect’s victory this week has focused on how Trump benefited from his improved performance with traditionally Democrat-supporting groups including Black and Latino men. Exit polling showed Trump picking up 47 percent of Latino men and doubling his standing with young Black men compared with four years ago.
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“There’s been an awful lot of talk about people who have traditionally voted for Democrats, Black men, Hispanic men, moving away because they believe that men have not been welcomed into the new Democratic Party,” Scarborough said, “And that somehow there’s something wrong with being a man, that there is a collective guilt.”
Scarborough went on to say that any Democrats “shocked by those words” then “they’ve had their head in the sand for about five, six, seven years.”
“We’ve had writers from The Atlantic talking about it, coming on about articles they’ve read about their children going to school in Manhattan, and young boys, 7, 8, 9-year-old boys being told that they’re part of a collective guilt because they are a male—toxic masculinity starts at 7,” Scarborough said.
“That doesn’t work,” he added. “Not only does that not work in politics, that doesn’t work in society. So while Democrats are sitting here talking—trying to figure out what’s happened with men, why Black men, why Hispanic men are departing the Democratic Party, they have to look back and see what’s happened over the past 10 years in the Democratic Party and among progressive elites.”
Scarborough specifically said there was a “feeling” in educational institutions from elementary schools to colleges of “collective guilt against men, the charge that all men are somehow part of this toxic masculinity.”
“That’s how parties lose men,” Scarborough said. “That’s how men fall to the side. That’s why Black men and Hispanic men in many cases said: Enough. Enough. I’m going to vote for the other guy.”
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