Hey, I'm Michael Onger, and you're listening to the On the Media Podcast Extra.

In the run-up to the election, Donald Trump was doggedly pursuing the votes of young men.

He courted them, as we described on the show, through interviews with influencers like Joe Rogan and Aidan Ross.

Yes. I mean, other than going to war and being a firefighter or being a cop, it's the most dangerous business.

It's the most dangerous.

Being president is the most dangerous.

Especially you.

I mean, you haven't even got to the election.

There's been two assassination attempts.

Donald Trump was on Aiden Ross's live stream where Aiding gifted him a cyber truck

wrapped with the moment right after the tempted

assassination. That's an Elon. It is an Elon. Wow. Shout out to Mr. Moss. That's beautiful.

Check out this rapper. Let me know your honest thoughts. These personalities are part of the so-called

manosphere, where anti-feminists, often right-wing

politics, are the norm.

While reporting on this corner of the internet, I've been thinking a lot about a conversation

I had last year with Richard Reeves, author of the book, of Boys and Men, Why the Modern

Male is Struggling, Why It Matter matters, and what to do about it.

He told me that the mainstream political discourse around men is fundamentally broken.

I should be clear at the outset that my focus here is on the approximately 95% of men who are

cisgender and heterosexual. It's not that there aren't many, many other issues,

some of which overlap for other men, but this is squarely focused at that particular group of men.

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