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Democrats have blown millions of dollars on efforts to appeal to “American Men,” who turned to President Donald Trump in droves on election day, in the hopes of winning back the working class, according to a report.

Democrats have spent $20 million on their efforts, with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men to return to the party, according to a New York Times report.

The plan, code-named SAM, or “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan,” promises to use the funds to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces,” according to the report.

As the Times described it, the reports “can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places.”

The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.

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“Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” the plan urges.

Democrats have “lost credibility by being seen as alien on cultural issues,” McCrary added.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

try and convince working-class to vote for them

see, they're giving up their game without even realizing. they're so out of touch, they don't realize they're exposing with their word choices that they just... aren't thinking about anything beyond "The Campaign".

Policy isn't an afterthought, it's never a thought. The DNC haven't just abandoned their voters, they've abandoned politics

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

The men in my life are pretty focused on their material conditions rn, maybe they should try improving those.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

Healthcare plz

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

just the absolute least authentic people ever

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Instead of studying how to manipulate us, maybe try uh... studying what we want? And then tell us how you're going to give it to us? And then make good on your promises? Fucking scum.

It kind of feels like the only thing they're studying is increasingly stern ways to scold us and demand our obedience in the same breath.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

No no, that would be populism. A lib genuinely told me this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

The "Bernie 'bro' narraative" and its consequences.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago

When Bernie Sanders had popular support from working class men the democrats denigrated his entire base of support as berniebros.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

they're blowing all this money to court the worst guys on earth when all they have to do is have a five finger death punch concert and call mayor pete a slur

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