Why men hate Democrats and more Boomer blowback

About this episode

Dave Winer discusses the reasons young men are turning to Trump and reflects on the impact of the MeToo movement.

As before I asked Claude.ai to do a synopsis. I corrected one factual error (informing it, waiting for a new version, not correcting the writing). And I think it may have missed the big points of both, but I will respect its opinion. As always if you really want to know what I said you have to listen. :-) Dave Winer responds to a recent episode of the David Frum podcast, in which Frum's guest was Tim Miller of The Bulwark. The topic that caught his attention: why young men are turning to Trump. He has thoughts, but first he has a detour to make. The detour is MeToo. Winer remembers it vividly as a social media-enabled phenomenon that did real damage — to people's careers, to trust, to the basic norms of adult interaction. He watched friends lose everything to accusations he found implausible, and he remembers modifying his own behavior in ways he describes as "horrific." The fear was pervasive and real. He credits the movement with catching genuine predators like Harvey Weinstein, but he also remembers the stampede quality of it — the way platform dynamics allowed something that couldn't have happened before social media. He got a small, personal taste of unwanted physical…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Winer

Guest: Tim Miller

Topics covered

• politics
• social media
• MeToo movement
• young men
• economic issues

Keywords

• Trump
• MeToo
• young men
• social media
• economic lockout

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Bulwark

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