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Ron Hart: The Democrats awkwardly try to fix their ‘men’ problem

AP Photo by Patrick Semansky / Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., center, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., left, speak with members of the Congressional Republican baseball team after the Congressional baseball game, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Washington. The Republicans won 10-0. The annual baseball game between Congressional Republicans and Democrats raises money for charity. AP Photo by Patrick Semansky / Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., center, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., left, speak with members of the Congressional Republican baseball team after the Congressional baseball game, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Washington. The Republicans won 10-0. The annual baseball game between Congressional Republicans and Democrats raises money for charity.

By Ron Hart August 26, 2026 4 min read

For years, the Democratic Party treated men like a museum treats a taxidermied woolly mammoth: historically important, dirty and best observed from behind a velvet rope.

Then 2024 happened. Black, white and Hispanic men shifted to voting Republican. So, instead of any real self-reflection, the Dems did what they do best: formed a secret committee.

The answer, according to $20 million worth of a Democrat consultant’s work, was just the wrong “messaging.” Not that young men feel invisible, think Democrats are weak and do not believe the party has their back. They just need the Dems to message them more, to see it their way.

This study even turned men off. We can smell a focus-group bro from three states away. Use the word “intersectionality” just once, and you lose us.