Politically, President Trump has built a coalition that has appealed to these disaffected young men, arguing that the system is rigged against them and that the "forgotten man" has been sacrificed to satisfy the interests of a globalist elite.
The blame for this is often pointed at a shift in our national institutions. Education, particularly higher education, has adopted political and cultural sensibilities that eschew traditional masculine traits like strength. Hollywood, too, has largely replaced iconic alpha-male roles with characters that young men say feel inauthentic to them today. In agrarian and even early industrial eras, men’s superior strength and stamina meant they could always put food on the table, but the "soft social" skills of the office have become the primary currency in a post- industrial age.
Moving past politics, though, there is a deeper, more biological force driving their decline—and it is hidden within their very own bodies.
There’s a reason that most men have low energy and, despite wanting to do everything the right way, still feel stuck and left behind: the havoc that toxic chemicals leaching off every day plastic products have unleashed on their bodies. The sperm counts of men have dropped more than 50 percent since 1973, and testosterone is declining in men of every age, including boys who haven't even finished high school.
The numbers should have triggered a national emergency, but instead, the truth has been suppressed for decades. Many American men are paying the cost, essentially being the victims of a forced chemical castration. Microplastics, which come from plastic packaging, containers, and synthetic materials common in our daily lives, have been found in human testicles, sperm samples, and even in the placentas of newborns. Scientists refer to them as endocrine disruptors—chemicals that interfere with the body's hormone system and lower testosterone production.