I think progressives never thought about this because we banked on immigration and demographic change allowing us to win culturally and electorally but the issue is immigrants tend to be overwhelmingly male, that is how Trump won actually he won over a lot of Hispanic,Black,Asian and indigenous men who feel humiliated by a new culture, economy and world.
So what can we do rhetorically and policy wise to win more young men over ?
Everyone’s opinions don’t matter the same. If I take the time and energy to understand a topic, my opinion has more weight than Joe Schmo who looked it up on Facebook. As Isaac Asimov said:
We are not talking about science, we are talking about politics.
In science you can study gravity and then your opinion on how gravity works is more important than the opinion of someone who hasn’t study gravity.
But we are talking about politics, politics is about what people want with their lives and how they are able to live those lives. And no matter what have you studied or how much have you studied. The biggest authority on someone’s life it’s always going to be that one person. You are not going to be able to know more about someone’s life, their goals, their fears, their aspirations and hopes, what makes them happy what makes them sad that themselves. Because they live with themselves 24/7 you cannot “outstudy” that.
It’s true that not every question in politics has an absolute, factual answer. But some do, and there’s a minimum standard of discussion below which people are just working with misinformation and will not be correct regardless of their goals.