Statistician: Democrats Struggling to Win Over Young Men Because They’re Too Mentally Stable

Famed pollster and statistician Nate Silver recently dived into why young men are turning away from Democrats. 

The simplest explanation is that Democrats have largely become an anti-men party, though the Party is too incapable of introspection to realize that. Recently, Democrats started shelling out $20 million to reach out to men, choosing a “disabled latino lesbian” as the face of their effort.  

As Silver found, young men being mentally stable is another major reason they’re rejecting an always-increasingly insane Democrat Party. 

As The Blaze’s Joseph MacKinnon reported: 

Silver indicated that a big part of Democrats' problem might be that those young men beyond their reach are not mentally unstable or attracted to a mentally ill style of politics.

Democrats — whom Americans largely regard as weak and ineffective — are right to be desperate. After all, in the 2024 election, President Donald Trump captured 60% of the white male vote, 54% of the Hispanic male vote, and 21% of the black male vote toward a combined total of 55% of the male vote overall. Men ages 18-44 majority voted for Trump. Firming up that figure were the young white men who previously supported former President Joe Biden but jumped ship and swam rightward, voting for Trump by a 28 percentage point margin.

The stats on mental health were bleak - but also something everyone knew anecdotally: 

Citing data from the 2022 Cooperative Election Study, a 50,000-plus person national survey administered by YouGov, Silver noted that higher self-reported mental health correlates with conservative political views. “I think an underrated factor in the 'how can Democrats win back young men' debate is the effects of personality, which differ especially among younger voters [and] are quite strongly correlated with voting preferences,” tweeted Silver.

Whereas only 20% of liberals reported having “excellent” mental health, 51% of conservatives said the same. On the bottom end, 45% of liberals said their mental health was poor, while only 19% of conservatives reported the same.

“Conservative ideology may work as a psychological buffer.”

We all knew this already, of course, but it’s nice to finally see some data quantifying it. 

Matt Palumbo is the author of The Heir: Inside the (Not So) Secret Network of Alex Soros