Nearly a year into Trump’s second term there is a noticeable shift in the range of opinions one can find expressed in mainstream journalism. The populist magazine Compact has been at the center of this churn, with two think-pieces going viral recently and taking a critical look, however indirectly, at the ascendancy of women and minorities and the related decline in power and prestige of white men as a group. Until recently, the topic would have been taboo, despite its central importance in forming the world we now inhabit.
In “The Great Feminization,” conservative journalist Helen Andrews eloquently describes the rise of women in law, journalism, and other prestige professions and laments the current and projected impacts of this transformation on the way our institutions function. Andrews leaves the reader contemplating a dreadful prospect: As the legal system becomes more female-dominated, and thus more emotive, can we expect a similar result in law? Will the administration of justice become increasingly arbitrary and politicized? Indeed, we have already seen one ironic consequence as young women are increasingly the objects of prey for criminal sociopaths who have been mollycoddled by pathologically woke, often female judges.
Following on Andrews’ bombshell article, Compact published “The Lost Generation” from Jacob Savage. Like Andrews, Savage purports to tell a neglected story for the first time. Unlike Andrews, Savage is apparently a liberal, but he offers something Andrews cannot: a first-hand account of what it’s like to have the crushing of your hopes and dreams legitimized by the full faith and credit of the political regime you grew up believing you could trust.
As a fellow young white man from the same Lost Generation Savage describes, it is fair to say that there were elements of Savage’s article that resonated deeply with me. My own right-wing political awakening was prompted by the very phenomenon Savage describes. Still, Savage belabors his point. Do we need a mountain of empirical evidence to confirm the obvious things we’ve been seeing regularly with our own eyes—that white men have been disenfranchised?
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