I have a hypothesis that I think I would like to present about why Gen Z men are leaning right. In the late 2010s, leftists and left leaning liberals started drawing attention to the concept of toxic masculinity, and making efforts to fight against it within their communities. This is all fine and well, this is something I, a man who identifies as left wing, can agree with. However, there is a fine line between teaching that that there is more than one way to express your masculinity, which I'm totally on board with, and implying that violent, aggressive masculinity is an inherently right wing concept, which is wrong on many levels.

Punk and its derivatives, like hardcore, have historically been violent and radically left wing subcultures. Yes, we have problems with nazis showing up to our shows, but nazi punks have generally been viewed as undesirables in our communities, not representative of them. Dead Kennedys wrote "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" all the way back in 1981, after all. There's a reason Tim Pool thinks skateboarding is about skateparks and the average conservative thinks Green Day is punk. Anyways, because left wingers and liberals pushed the message that expressing masculinity through violence is inherently wrong, most of the aggression and violent energy gen z men have that could've gone into pipelines of established left wing subcultures that we already had instead went into the manosphere. So, great job, the left, we really nailed that one. Hindsight is 20/20, I suppose.