Anand Giridharadas: ‘Real Men Don’t Turn to Fascists to Solve Their Problems’

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GIRIDHARADAS: “People should be rejecting this. Not most men, the average American man is saying yes to fascism right now. Why? And so, I think she needs to understand, as I'm sure her team does, that in this era of rapid change, the future feels to a lot of men, a lot of people in general, like a kind of pair of jeans it doesn't quite fit. And you have to speak to people not just in terms of economic policy, if that's the case, you have to say, 'Hey, I see you and I recognize you. I understand the future feels bewildering. I understand you sometimes feel like you don't know what to say or you don't know quite how you're going to take care of your family. But real men don't outsource the protection of their family to dictators. Real men don't turn to fascists to solve their problems. They create things, they build things, they do things.' I think men need to be invited into an aspirational picture, an aspirational story of a progress that has a place for them too.”