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0:01:56 I’m Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice.
0:02:04 Young men should vote for Kamala Harris, The Last Swing Voters, as read by George Hahn.
0:02:15 The catastrophizing from both sides regarding the end of America if she or he wins is obnoxious
0:02:19 and recognizes neither history nor the resilience of the U.S.
0:02:23 We’ve survived much worse than her or him.
0:02:29 However, it’s clear that, as in any election, some groups will fare better or worse with their
0:02:35 guy or gal in the White House, and if you disagree with me, we’ll both be fine.
0:02:42 The group whose well-being, or lack thereof, I am increasingly focused on is young men.
0:02:49 I believe Kamala Harris and Tim Walls offer the best way forward for young men in the U.S.,
0:02:53 who’ve been left behind in a time of unprecedented prosperity.
0:02:59 This election is, or should be, a referendum on two related things,
0:03:04 women’s bodily autonomy, and the future of men in the U.S.
0:03:09 With the race likely to be decided not by a handful of battleground states,
0:03:15 but by a few battleground counties, the votes of young men could be decisive.
0:03:18 No group has fallen further behind faster.
0:03:24 Young men are more persuadable than older voters, who are more partisan.
0:03:30 According to data for progress, swing voters are more common among young people.
0:03:36 Close to half, 43 percent, of swing voters are under 45.
0:03:43 According to Circle at Tufts University, young male voters are motivated to a large degree by
0:03:49 economic issues such as inflation and job stability, issues that candidates tend to
0:03:51 shift positions on during the campaign.
0:03:58 The GOP has proven smarter and more aggressive than the Democrats in reaching out to men,
0:04:05 especially online. In recent years, young men have been trending more conservative and apathetic,
0:04:08 while young women have become more progressive and engaged.
0:04:12 The gender gap has become a gender gulf.
0:04:17 Women make up a little over half of the electorate,
0:04:21 but they turn out in larger numbers to vote than men.
0:04:28 This year, the overthrow of Roe v. Wade and numerous state ballot questions about abortion
0:04:31 are likely to bring record numbers of young women to the polls.
0:04:37 Young men, most of whom support the right to choose and gender equality,
0:04:41 are not as strongly motivated to vote on those issues.
0:04:47 Part of the problem, I believe, is that the Democratic Party has abandoned young men and
0:04:53 failed to show them what the loss of Roe means for them, their opportunities, and their choices.
0:04:58 The DNC website has a page titled “Who We Serve.”
0:05:06 Listed are 16 constituencies, including African Americans, the LGBTQ community,
0:05:14 women, veterans, and 12 other demographic groups that comprise approximately 76% of the population.
0:05:20 When you explicitly advocate for 76% of the population,
0:05:26 you’re not advocating for 76%, but discriminating against the 24%.
0:05:29 In this case, young men.
0:05:36 This visibly absent group comes into sharp relief when you extract an obvious truth
0:05:43 from the data. No group has fallen faster or further in the U.S. over the past two decades
0:05:51 than young men. That neglect shows up in polls. As the New York Times recently reported about
0:05:58 Democrats faring poorly with all men, “It increasingly seems possible that most or perhaps
0:06:05 all of that weakness is concentrated among young men. Surprisingly, Ms. Harris is faring no better
0:06:12 than Mr. Biden did among young men in the Times’ Sienna data, even as she’s made significant gains
0:06:19 among young women.” I receive a lot of emails from worried parents,
0:06:25 particularly mothers, along these lines. “I have a daughter who lives in Chicago
0:06:30 and works in PR and another daughter who’s at Penn. My son lives in our basement,
0:06:35 vapes, and plays video games.” Young American men are in a crisis of
0:06:44 under-employment and under-socialization, which is bad for all of us. Even as the costs of college
0:06:50 have soared beyond reach of many families, many of the manufacturing jobs that didn’t require a
0:06:57 college degree and were a ticket to the middle class have been off-shored. Housing is increasingly
0:07:05 unaffordable. Nearly 60% of men between the ages of 18 and 24 live with their parents and one in
0:07:14 five still live with their parents at age 30. Since 2004, deaths of despair among young men
0:07:25 have taken 400,000 lives. Think about this. More young men in America have died deaths of despair
0:07:33 in the last 20 years than were killed in World War II. Meanwhile, the whole subject of what it means
0:07:39 to be a man has become radioactive, infected by a dialogue that feels more like disdain,
0:07:45 like toxic masculinity, than a conversation meant to address the issue. Young men don’t know who
0:07:52 they’re supposed to be and lack the resources to go out into the world and find out. Many are stuck,
0:07:59 isolated, despairing, and unproductive, prone to obesity, drug addiction, and suicide,
0:08:06 susceptible to misogyny, conspiracy theories, and radicalization. They make lousy potential mates,
0:08:14 employees, and citizens. While young women have made great strides in education and earning power,
0:08:20 which is great and we should do nothing to stop that, young men seem stuck in reverse.
0:08:27 I have spent a decent amount of time reviewing the different economic policies and positions of
0:08:33 both campaigns and feel Harris’s policies would provide young men with increased opportunities
0:08:41 to realize their masculinity, specifically to provide, to protect, and to procreate.
0:08:49 These are prosperous times. America doesn’t need to be made great again,
0:08:54 as Yale management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld recently highlighted in Time,
0:09:01 the U.S. economy under Biden-Harris is, by a number of objective measures, doing well.
0:09:11 The unemployment rate is currently about 4.1%, the lowest since 1968. Inflation is low at 2.2%.
0:09:18 GDP growth is the best in the world. The financial markets are soaring, hitting 71
0:09:24 record highs this year, and Biden has cut the deficit by one-third.
0:09:34 Writing about technology, William Gibson famously said, quote, “The future is already here.
0:09:41 It’s just not evenly distributed,” unquote. The same is true of prosperity,
0:09:48 and the algorithms that increasingly run our lives want to convince us that everything is awful.
0:09:53 In real life, the Biden administration has an economic record to be proud of,
0:10:00 and Harris should embrace and extend it. She is campaigning on expanding housing construction,
0:10:06 reducing student debt, increasing child tax credits, bringing back manufacturing jobs,
0:10:10 and helping the sandwich generation care for their aging parents.
0:10:17 The other side’s policies are inflationary, raising tariffs and cutting immigration,
0:10:26 the GOP’s other standby, tax cuts, adds to the deficit, and that debt is an enormous long-term
0:10:34 tax, particularly on young people. And that debt is an enormous long-term tax, particularly on
0:10:41 young people. Older people, like me, aren’t going to be around to pay off the deficit. Young people are.
0:10:48 Historically, being a provider was a man’s job. Though we now live in a world where physical
0:10:54 strength doesn’t carry as much weight economically, meaning women can bring home just as much bacon as
0:11:00 men. But women becoming breadwinners doesn’t mean the role is any less important for men.
0:11:08 A guy with a decent job and a strong economy is creating wealth, paying taxes, and earning social
0:11:14 capital, not to mention his own self-respect. He’s a more attractive potential husband and father.
0:11:23 As Richard Reeves says, he adds surplus value. The number one condition for the development of
0:11:32 male providers, a strong and expanding economy, is far more likely under Harris. There is near
0:11:38 universal agreement on this among economists, Nobel laureates, and investment banks that have
0:11:48 bothered to do the math. This election is about policies, but it is also about values. If you’re
0:11:55 looking for a good shorthand term for healthy masculinity circa 2024, you could do a lot worse
0:12:01 than the word “mench,” which in German simply means “human.” And in Yiddish describes, quote,
0:12:08 “a person of integrity or rectitude, a just, honest, or honorable person,” unquote.
0:12:16 The first instinct of a mensch is to protect, to sacrifice for something bigger than oneself,
0:12:23 not to pick on the vulnerable. Real men don’t start barfights, they break up barfights.
0:12:29 They don’t shitpost their country, they defend it. Harris’ running mate, Tim Walls,
0:12:33 demonstrated that instinct during his long service in the National Guard,
0:12:40 as did J.D. Vance by enlisting in the Marines. Walls also exhibited the impulse to protect
0:12:46 as a high school teacher and football coach in Moncato, Minnesota, where he was an advisor to
0:13:13 LGBTQ kids starting a gay straight alliance. The Democrats have done poorly reaching out to young
0:13:21 men. Picking an America’s dad type guy for VP, somebody with gray hair who can talk to both
0:13:28 football players and queer kids, was an important move in bridging the gap and a statement of principle.
0:13:35 A man’s default setting should be to move to protect in any situation.
0:13:42 The third foundational element of masculinity, the third leg of the stool, if you will,
0:13:51 is ensuring the species endures, which starts with sex. When I was a kid, my mom was worried
0:13:57 I’d get into too much trouble. I believe today’s parents are concerned our kids won’t find enough.
0:14:05 Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman have declared war on alcohol, where they see ill health and
0:14:11 drunkenness, where young people in drinking are concerned I see togetherness, but that’s another
0:14:19 post. My generation never gave up on sex. However, lately, under employment and screenbound young
0:14:25 men who feel rejected in an increasingly winner-take-all online dating market have thrown in the towel.
0:14:34 About 63% of young men are single and a lot of them aren’t even trying to date. Meanwhile,
0:14:40 young women find themselves in an intensifying competition for a shrinking pool of what they
0:14:48 view as acceptable mates. The viral hit was “I’m looking for a man in finance,” not “I’m looking
0:15:02 for a high school dropout who lives with his parents.” Young men need guardrails, and there are
0:15:08 few stronger than the prospect of maintaining a romantic relationship. A decent summary of the
0:15:13 key moments between me and several of my post-college girlfriends went something like this.
0:15:18 “Get your shit together or I’m going to stop having sex with you,” i.e. break up.
0:15:26 This was motivating and needed. Young men today have fewer venues where they can meet potential
0:15:33 romantic partners. With fewer of them going to college or church and more of them working remotely,
0:15:39 men have less social interaction and no ability to build social capital.
0:15:46 Less sex ultimately means less intimacy, less marriage, and fewer kids.
0:15:53 Straight young men are interested in straight young women because they want to have sex.
0:16:01 We tend to act as if there’s something wrong with that. There isn’t. Sex and the pursuit
0:16:07 of it leads to romance and intimacy and lights a fire under young men to better themselves,
0:16:15 to be more attractive to potential mates. This intimacy often involves sacrifice,
0:16:20 the forsaking all other stuff that comes when a pair of young people decide, “I choose you.”
0:16:27 This often leads to children. The most wonderful things in life, in my experience,
0:16:35 lack rationality and structure. My grandmother, regarding finding a mate, used to say, “You have
0:16:44 your list and then you fall in love and you tear up your list.” The person you fall for
0:16:49 and how it happens will likely make less sense than almost any other important thing in your life.
0:16:55 And that’s one of the reasons it’s wonderful. It speaks to you on a different level,
0:17:02 not what society or your parents want, but what you desire. And eventually the answer
0:17:06 to the most important question of your life, “Who do you want to have a family with?”
0:17:15 According to Gallup, though, only about 21% of Americans under 30 have kids.
0:17:23 In 1980, the figure was about 38%. In 1950, it was about 50%.
0:17:31 There are a lot of reasons for that, but the war on bodily autonomy is a contributing factor.
0:17:39 The state laws, restricting or banning abortion that sprang up in the wake of Rose Demise,
0:17:46 are designed to limit the sexual freedom of young women and men and undermine their ability to
0:17:53 get into the game and create families. The people most vulnerable in a post-abortion America
0:18:00 are poor women. Affluent women will be able to get hold of myth of pristone or to travel
0:18:07 for a safe legal abortion. A pregnant 17-year-old black single mother in Alabama, however,
0:18:15 is at ground zero for an emerging gender apartheid. She’s likely already poor and forced to carry
0:18:20 an unwanted pregnancy to term, she and the father, if he’s even in the picture,
0:18:27 become less likely to escape poverty. While Democrats have pushed hard to get
0:18:33 young women to turn out and vote, the Harris campaign hasn’t been making the case to young men
0:18:40 that the fight for bodily autonomy involves them too. That needs to change. Harris in the White
0:18:47 House offers a chance to begin to reclaim the Supreme Court for the majority in this country
0:18:53 who support bodily autonomy and a national effort to roll back state restrictions on it.
0:19:01 I don’t think electing Harrison Walls is going to magically bring young men out of the crisis
0:19:09 they are in. I do think, however, that it’s an important step. A vote for Harrison Walls is a
0:19:16 vote for the future, a vote to continue to improve economic policies that have served America well,
0:19:23 that can give young men a place in it. It is also a vote for a shift in the way we think
0:19:30 about masculinity in this country. This is the most anxious generation in U.S. history.
0:19:37 Action absorbs anxiety, and I hope young men will exercise their agency
0:19:43 and support candidates who enable them to be providers, protectors, and procreators.
0:19:48 I believe a Harris Walls administration will serve young men well.
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0:01:56 I’m Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice.
0:02:04 Young men should vote for Kamala Harris, The Last Swing Voters, as read by George Hahn.
0:02:15 The catastrophizing from both sides regarding the end of America if she or he wins is obnoxious
0:02:19 and recognizes neither history nor the resilience of the U.S.
0:02:23 We’ve survived much worse than her or him.
0:02:29 However, it’s clear that, as in any election, some groups will fare better or worse with their
0:02:35 guy or gal in the White House, and if you disagree with me, we’ll both be fine.
0:02:42 The group whose well-being, or lack thereof, I am increasingly focused on is young men.
0:02:49 I believe Kamala Harris and Tim Walls offer the best way forward for young men in the U.S.,
0:02:53 who’ve been left behind in a time of unprecedented prosperity.
0:02:59 This election is, or should be, a referendum on two related things,
0:03:04 women’s bodily autonomy, and the future of men in the U.S.
0:03:09 With the race likely to be decided not by a handful of battleground states,
0:03:15 but by a few battleground counties, the votes of young men could be decisive.
0:03:18 No group has fallen further behind faster.
0:03:24 Young men are more persuadable than older voters, who are more partisan.
0:03:30 According to data for progress, swing voters are more common among young people.
0:03:36 Close to half, 43 percent, of swing voters are under 45.
0:03:43 According to Circle at Tufts University, young male voters are motivated to a large degree by
0:03:49 economic issues such as inflation and job stability, issues that candidates tend to
0:03:51 shift positions on during the campaign.
0:03:58 The GOP has proven smarter and more aggressive than the Democrats in reaching out to men,
0:04:05 especially online. In recent years, young men have been trending more conservative and apathetic,
0:04:08 while young women have become more progressive and engaged.
0:04:12 The gender gap has become a gender gulf.
0:04:17 Women make up a little over half of the electorate,
0:04:21 but they turn out in larger numbers to vote than men.
0:04:28 This year, the overthrow of Roe v. Wade and numerous state ballot questions about abortion
0:04:31 are likely to bring record numbers of young women to the polls.
0:04:37 Young men, most of whom support the right to choose and gender equality,
0:04:41 are not as strongly motivated to vote on those issues.
0:04:47 Part of the problem, I believe, is that the Democratic Party has abandoned young men and
0:04:53 failed to show them what the loss of Roe means for them, their opportunities, and their choices.
0:04:58 The DNC website has a page titled “Who We Serve.”
0:05:06 Listed are 16 constituencies, including African Americans, the LGBTQ community,
0:05:14 women, veterans, and 12 other demographic groups that comprise approximately 76% of the population.
0:05:20 When you explicitly advocate for 76% of the population,
0:05:26 you’re not advocating for 76%, but discriminating against the 24%.
0:05:29 In this case, young men.
0:05:36 This visibly absent group comes into sharp relief when you extract an obvious truth
0:05:43 from the data. No group has fallen faster or further in the U.S. over the past two decades
0:05:51 than young men. That neglect shows up in polls. As the New York Times recently reported about
0:05:58 Democrats faring poorly with all men, “It increasingly seems possible that most or perhaps
0:06:05 all of that weakness is concentrated among young men. Surprisingly, Ms. Harris is faring no better
0:06:12 than Mr. Biden did among young men in the Times’ Sienna data, even as she’s made significant gains
0:06:19 among young women.” I receive a lot of emails from worried parents,
0:06:25 particularly mothers, along these lines. “I have a daughter who lives in Chicago
0:06:30 and works in PR and another daughter who’s at Penn. My son lives in our basement,
0:06:35 vapes, and plays video games.” Young American men are in a crisis of
0:06:44 under-employment and under-socialization, which is bad for all of us. Even as the costs of college
0:06:50 have soared beyond reach of many families, many of the manufacturing jobs that didn’t require a
0:06:57 college degree and were a ticket to the middle class have been off-shored. Housing is increasingly
0:07:05 unaffordable. Nearly 60% of men between the ages of 18 and 24 live with their parents and one in
0:07:14 five still live with their parents at age 30. Since 2004, deaths of despair among young men
0:07:25 have taken 400,000 lives. Think about this. More young men in America have died deaths of despair
0:07:33 in the last 20 years than were killed in World War II. Meanwhile, the whole subject of what it means
0:07:39 to be a man has become radioactive, infected by a dialogue that feels more like disdain,
0:07:45 like toxic masculinity, than a conversation meant to address the issue. Young men don’t know who
0:07:52 they’re supposed to be and lack the resources to go out into the world and find out. Many are stuck,
0:07:59 isolated, despairing, and unproductive, prone to obesity, drug addiction, and suicide,
0:08:06 susceptible to misogyny, conspiracy theories, and radicalization. They make lousy potential mates,
0:08:14 employees, and citizens. While young women have made great strides in education and earning power,
0:08:20 which is great and we should do nothing to stop that, young men seem stuck in reverse.
0:08:27 I have spent a decent amount of time reviewing the different economic policies and positions of
0:08:33 both campaigns and feel Harris’s policies would provide young men with increased opportunities
0:08:41 to realize their masculinity, specifically to provide, to protect, and to procreate.
0:08:49 These are prosperous times. America doesn’t need to be made great again,
0:08:54 as Yale management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld recently highlighted in Time,
0:09:01 the U.S. economy under Biden-Harris is, by a number of objective measures, doing well.
0:09:11 The unemployment rate is currently about 4.1%, the lowest since 1968. Inflation is low at 2.2%.
0:09:18 GDP growth is the best in the world. The financial markets are soaring, hitting 71
0:09:24 record highs this year, and Biden has cut the deficit by one-third.
0:09:34 Writing about technology, William Gibson famously said, quote, “The future is already here.
0:09:41 It’s just not evenly distributed,” unquote. The same is true of prosperity,
0:09:48 and the algorithms that increasingly run our lives want to convince us that everything is awful.
0:09:53 In real life, the Biden administration has an economic record to be proud of,
0:10:00 and Harris should embrace and extend it. She is campaigning on expanding housing construction,
0:10:06 reducing student debt, increasing child tax credits, bringing back manufacturing jobs,
0:10:10 and helping the sandwich generation care for their aging parents.
0:10:17 The other side’s policies are inflationary, raising tariffs and cutting immigration,
0:10:26 the GOP’s other standby, tax cuts, adds to the deficit, and that debt is an enormous long-term
0:10:34 tax, particularly on young people. And that debt is an enormous long-term tax, particularly on
0:10:41 young people. Older people, like me, aren’t going to be around to pay off the deficit. Young people are.
0:10:48 Historically, being a provider was a man’s job. Though we now live in a world where physical
0:10:54 strength doesn’t carry as much weight economically, meaning women can bring home just as much bacon as
0:11:00 men. But women becoming breadwinners doesn’t mean the role is any less important for men.
0:11:08 A guy with a decent job and a strong economy is creating wealth, paying taxes, and earning social
0:11:14 capital, not to mention his own self-respect. He’s a more attractive potential husband and father.
0:11:23 As Richard Reeves says, he adds surplus value. The number one condition for the development of
0:11:32 male providers, a strong and expanding economy, is far more likely under Harris. There is near
0:11:38 universal agreement on this among economists, Nobel laureates, and investment banks that have
0:11:48 bothered to do the math. This election is about policies, but it is also about values. If you’re
0:11:55 looking for a good shorthand term for healthy masculinity circa 2024, you could do a lot worse
0:12:01 than the word “mench,” which in German simply means “human.” And in Yiddish describes, quote,
0:12:08 “a person of integrity or rectitude, a just, honest, or honorable person,” unquote.
0:12:16 The first instinct of a mensch is to protect, to sacrifice for something bigger than oneself,
0:12:23 not to pick on the vulnerable. Real men don’t start barfights, they break up barfights.
0:12:29 They don’t shitpost their country, they defend it. Harris’ running mate, Tim Walls,
0:12:33 demonstrated that instinct during his long service in the National Guard,
0:12:40 as did J.D. Vance by enlisting in the Marines. Walls also exhibited the impulse to protect
0:12:46 as a high school teacher and football coach in Moncato, Minnesota, where he was an advisor to
0:13:13 LGBTQ kids starting a gay straight alliance. The Democrats have done poorly reaching out to young
0:13:21 men. Picking an America’s dad type guy for VP, somebody with gray hair who can talk to both
0:13:28 football players and queer kids, was an important move in bridging the gap and a statement of principle.
0:13:35 A man’s default setting should be to move to protect in any situation.
0:13:42 The third foundational element of masculinity, the third leg of the stool, if you will,
0:13:51 is ensuring the species endures, which starts with sex. When I was a kid, my mom was worried
0:13:57 I’d get into too much trouble. I believe today’s parents are concerned our kids won’t find enough.
0:14:05 Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman have declared war on alcohol, where they see ill health and
0:14:11 drunkenness, where young people in drinking are concerned I see togetherness, but that’s another
0:14:19 post. My generation never gave up on sex. However, lately, under employment and screenbound young
0:14:25 men who feel rejected in an increasingly winner-take-all online dating market have thrown in the towel.
0:14:34 About 63% of young men are single and a lot of them aren’t even trying to date. Meanwhile,
0:14:40 young women find themselves in an intensifying competition for a shrinking pool of what they
0:14:48 view as acceptable mates. The viral hit was “I’m looking for a man in finance,” not “I’m looking
0:15:02 for a high school dropout who lives with his parents.” Young men need guardrails, and there are
0:15:08 few stronger than the prospect of maintaining a romantic relationship. A decent summary of the
0:15:13 key moments between me and several of my post-college girlfriends went something like this.
0:15:18 “Get your shit together or I’m going to stop having sex with you,” i.e. break up.
0:15:26 This was motivating and needed. Young men today have fewer venues where they can meet potential
0:15:33 romantic partners. With fewer of them going to college or church and more of them working remotely,
0:15:39 men have less social interaction and no ability to build social capital.
0:15:46 Less sex ultimately means less intimacy, less marriage, and fewer kids.
0:15:53 Straight young men are interested in straight young women because they want to have sex.
0:16:01 We tend to act as if there’s something wrong with that. There isn’t. Sex and the pursuit
0:16:07 of it leads to romance and intimacy and lights a fire under young men to better themselves,
0:16:15 to be more attractive to potential mates. This intimacy often involves sacrifice,
0:16:20 the forsaking all other stuff that comes when a pair of young people decide, “I choose you.”
0:16:27 This often leads to children. The most wonderful things in life, in my experience,
0:16:35 lack rationality and structure. My grandmother, regarding finding a mate, used to say, “You have
0:16:44 your list and then you fall in love and you tear up your list.” The person you fall for
0:16:49 and how it happens will likely make less sense than almost any other important thing in your life.
0:16:55 And that’s one of the reasons it’s wonderful. It speaks to you on a different level,
0:17:02 not what society or your parents want, but what you desire. And eventually the answer
0:17:06 to the most important question of your life, “Who do you want to have a family with?”
0:17:15 According to Gallup, though, only about 21% of Americans under 30 have kids.
0:17:23 In 1980, the figure was about 38%. In 1950, it was about 50%.
0:17:31 There are a lot of reasons for that, but the war on bodily autonomy is a contributing factor.
0:17:39 The state laws, restricting or banning abortion that sprang up in the wake of Rose Demise,
0:17:46 are designed to limit the sexual freedom of young women and men and undermine their ability to
0:17:53 get into the game and create families. The people most vulnerable in a post-abortion America
0:18:00 are poor women. Affluent women will be able to get hold of myth of pristone or to travel
0:18:07 for a safe legal abortion. A pregnant 17-year-old black single mother in Alabama, however,
0:18:15 is at ground zero for an emerging gender apartheid. She’s likely already poor and forced to carry
0:18:20 an unwanted pregnancy to term, she and the father, if he’s even in the picture,
0:18:27 become less likely to escape poverty. While Democrats have pushed hard to get
0:18:33 young women to turn out and vote, the Harris campaign hasn’t been making the case to young men
0:18:40 that the fight for bodily autonomy involves them too. That needs to change. Harris in the White
0:18:47 House offers a chance to begin to reclaim the Supreme Court for the majority in this country
0:18:53 who support bodily autonomy and a national effort to roll back state restrictions on it.
0:19:01 I don’t think electing Harrison Walls is going to magically bring young men out of the crisis
0:19:09 they are in. I do think, however, that it’s an important step. A vote for Harrison Walls is a
0:19:16 vote for the future, a vote to continue to improve economic policies that have served America well,
0:19:23 that can give young men a place in it. It is also a vote for a shift in the way we think
0:19:30 about masculinity in this country. This is the most anxious generation in U.S. history.
0:19:37 Action absorbs anxiety, and I hope young men will exercise their agency
0:19:43 and support candidates who enable them to be providers, protectors, and procreators.
0:19:48 I believe a Harris Walls administration will serve young men well.
0:19:53 If you disagree, again, we’ll both be fine.
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