The political fight for American men
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
There was a gender divide in the US in 2024 and one of the criticisms of the failed Democrat presidential campaign was that they appealed to women and largely ignored men.
So, with the midterms coming up, and the 2028 battle lines being drawn, how much is are political conversations going to centre around who can attract the male vote?
Justin’s been talking to a man who’s been thinking about that very question.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Correspondent
GUEST: • Scott Galloway, New York University professor, author, and podcaster
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | On Newscast, we are not in the business of telling you how to think. |
| 0:11.5 | We get the brightest minds from across the BBC to chat through the biggest stories. |
| 0:16.1 | You should leave feeling smarter about all the bonkers things in the news. |
| 0:19.7 | Listen to Newscast every day on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:23.2 | One of the great battlegrounds in modern American politics and modern American culture is men, |
| 0:29.5 | what to do about them, how to attract them politically, how to treat them culturally. |
| 0:35.9 | On the right, they're pretty sure. They've done very well with men. |
| 0:39.9 | The Trump campaign did well. The Republicans more generally do well, particularly young men who've |
| 0:45.0 | been attracted to the right-wing cause. On the left, they're more conflicted. There are plenty of |
| 0:51.4 | left-wing people who do not approve of what they regard as masculinity. |
| 0:56.0 | But there is also a sense on the left that something has to be done to attract men back to the left, back to the Democratic Party. |
| 1:05.0 | I've been talking to one person who has very strong views on modern American masculinity. He's not someone from the right, |
| 1:13.1 | he's very much someone from the left, but he's someone who believes that the left needs to change. |
| 1:18.4 | And we had a conversation as well about where America is going next. The character of America, |
| 1:24.5 | which is so vital and in a sense so unpolitical, it goes to what the place |
| 1:29.2 | should be in the post-Trump era. Welcome to AmeriCast. Americaast from BBC News. You hear that sound? |
| 1:40.3 | Oh, I think when I hear that sound, it reminds me of money. We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it. |
| 1:48.2 | This is a big cover up, and this administration is engaged in it. |
| 1:51.6 | This guy has Trump arrangement syndrome. |
| 1:53.8 | I have four words for you. |
| 1:57.1 | Turn the volume up. |
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