NYU prof warns middle-aged mothers shifting to GOP as Dems fail young men
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NYU professor Scott Galloway argued that one of the most striking changes in the 2024 elections is mothers trying to help their sons.
Galloway has spoken repeatedly about the challenges young men face in a changing world; while the modern progressive movement seems to ignore their interests as a group. Appearing on Nicolle Wallace’s podcast “The Best People,” Galloway said he “hit the jackpot” because he was a White man born in the 1960s, part of a generation that had access to wealth and affordable homes.
“men of my generation “I owe a debt, and the way I try to pay that debt is to try to raise awareness about the struggles of young men because they are held accountable and blamed for my privilege,” he said.
The message is not always well received by his liberal allies, however, he said, noting that “When I start talking about this stuff, there’s an understandable gag reflex from progressives, from women, from non-Whites.”
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Scott Galloway said he felt compelled to speak up on behalf of young men who he said were condemned for their privilege, but ironically they did not. (TOBIAS HASE/dpa)
Wallace recalled an earlier conversation they had on this topic and concluded that in the 2024 election, “it’s not just young men who are being drawn into the Trump-adjacent manosphere, it’s their mothers as well.”
“We don’t like to have these conversations because, you know, the truth sometimes doesn’t reflect well on either gender, and the truth is there are still a lot of women who will vote for whoever they think is best for their husbands and their sons,” Galloway said. in question.
He noted that the three groups that shifted the most from blue to red between the 2020 and 2024 elections were Hispanics, voters under 30, and women between the ages of 45 and 64.
“Everything I need to get ahead — all the keys to dating, savings, pride, owning a home, being successful — is getting harder and more expensive,” he explained from a young man’s perspective. As a result, he said, many people want to shake up the system.
“As you referenced, I thought the most interesting shift was that women ages 45 to 64 were trending the most toward the red, and my thesis is that that’s their mothers — because if your son is ‘vaping and playing video games’ in the basement, he doesn’t care about territorial sovereignty or transgender rights in Ukraine,” he continued.
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NYU professor Scott Galloway often speaks about the issues facing young men, saying this generation faces unique challenges that he doesn’t have. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
The basic social contract in any society is that if you play by the rules and be a good citizen, your children will have a better life than you, Galloway said. He claimed that for the first time in nearly three centuries of U.S. history, people in their thirties were generally worse off financially than their parents were at the same age.
“Almost half of men under the age of 24 live at home. One in five men aged 30 years old lives at home. One third will live at home before the age of 25,” he said. “And all I can tell you is, if you’re the parent of a child who’s struggling, your whole world shrinks to that child.”
He said that these problems also affect women, but men are more at risk due to society’s tendency to work. Men date women who are poorer than themselves, but women tend to date men who are poorer than themselves.
“When the pool of ‘horizontal and upward’ men continues to shrink, a lack of household structure emerges,” she said, noting that 75% of women say economic status is important in a partner.
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Men and women of Generation Z are particularly divided on political views, but many mothers are switching political allegiances to help their sons in what is seen as a moment of intergenerational crisis. (Fox News)
As a result, today’s economic and social trends have left little opportunity for advancement in a large pool of romantically unviable men.
“The most unstable, violent societies in the world all have one thing in common: disproportionate numbers of young men lack economic and romantic opportunities,” he warned.
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