The problem with writing about a presidential election is that everyone is writing about the presidential election. You run the risk of retreading well-trodden ground. Worse, for a columnist, you risk not only making the same argument others have made but also making it in a way that is not quite as good. Being unoriginal is perhaps worse than being wrong.

Here is, I think, one of the most important but unsurprising aspects of the outcome this year: President-Elect Donald Trump won men by 10 points according to early exit polls. That number could change after this column goes to print, but it’s safe to say, as does the left-leaning online magazine Vox, that if the 1992 election that sent record numbers of women to Congress was “The Year of the Woman,” then the 2024 election can be called “The Year of the Man.”

This fact carries with it political implications that can and will be ceaselessly parsed in the ensuing weeks and months. But it also carries cultural implications and opportunities. Ahead of the election, there were indicators, some obvious and some subtle, that signaled which way American men would break. More on that later.

It’s worth noting that the redshift among men wasn’t a strictly white phenomenon. There was movement among black and Hispanic males as well, with Trump winning about 20 percent and 54 percent, respectively. Again, that’s according to exit polls and subject to adjustment as more accurate data land. Still, left-leaning media is blaming everything from racism and sexism to the “epidemic of loneliness” among men that, according to them, isn’t hitting women in the same way. One of the rare times you will hear outlets like Vox express concern over the psychological and emotional well-being of men is when they vote the wrong way—a sign that their psychic architecture needs further reworking. The ideological beatings will continue until the Democratic Party’s margins improve.