In the United States today, there is a rising group of “disaffected men.” These largely young, conservative men are not disaffected by the left alone; to them, this group – the Democratic party – had left them behind years ago. In the 2024 election, these men argued that the left utilized what’s described as “radical feminism,” shown through what they argue is the constant putting down of the male sex, or more sensibly, a general hate of men. Along with the left pushing many sex-gender issues. This led to a significantly greater percentage of men voting for Republican candidate Donald Trump rather than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. To some, the DNC platform left them behind well before then.
Though for different reasons, many of these disaffected men feel abandoned by the right. The promises from Trump to “Make America Great Again” through his Agenda 47, coupled with the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” have been widely disastrous or simply not implemented at all. For example, many single-issue voters specifically have cast their ballots for the deportation of foreigners. This goal has not, nor is it even on track to be seen. The Department of Homeland Security has reported an estimated 1.6 million voluntarily self-deported and more than 400,000 forced removal deportations in the last 250 days. But still, Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data finds that 51.9 million immigrants live in the U.S. as of June 2025.
Trump, along with the many mainstream Republican leaders like Vivek Ramaswamy, and Vice President JD Vance, continue to push for a flood of “merit-based immigration,” despite the argued unauthenticity of degrees and the inability to integrate. This alone alienates a large group of single-issue issues or otherwise nationalistic voters.
Internationally, the policy of nearly every Republican politician is the continued financial support of Israel, despite the growing public disapproval of Israel’s conflicts and conduct towards non-military targets. Regardless, in 2024, the U.S. sent a record 17.9 billion dollars to Israel. Now, in 2025, Trump has unpaused arms shipments, and Congress as a whole remains aligned with Israel.
Our politicians claim we lack the funds for social welfare, millions drown in medical debt, prices continue to rise, and many high-skilled jobs are filled. So, what is the solution? Who has this solution? To many, the solution is radical Nationalism, the ideology of the disaffected. This ideology is pushed greatly by a rising figure on the right, Nicholas J. Fuentes. With his online show ‘America First,’ he can capture the attention of hundreds of thousands of these disaffected young men. This rising block, in the wake of Trump and the GOP’s failures, threatens to split future Republican voters between complacency with the party and the wildcard of right-wing online nationalists.
