Raised in a liberal Jewish home outside of Boston, Portnoy now represents a movement in conservative politics – a young, mostly-male fan base who turned away from Democrats and voted for Donald Trump.
I asked Portnoy, “What happened to the Democrats? Why did they lose so many young men?”
“People often think I have the answer,” he replied. “My nutshell is generally they were very anti-normal guys.”
“What do you mean, ‘normal guys’? Are you saying there’s only one way to be a guy?”
“It’s okay to be like, if that girl’s hot, ‘Hey, that girl’s hot. I want to drink, I want to party, I like frat parties…’ That was all bad,” Portnoy said. “And to be honest, the White guy … was the bad guy, became the bad guy. And there’s a lot of, you know, White dudes who are like, ‘Well, I’m not the bad guy. Like, what are you getting mad at me for? I wasn’t here for colonialism or any of the stuff that you guys are complaining about 200 years ago. Like, what did I do?’
“And even with the Trump stuff, he won the election,” he said. “You had a candidate basically calling you a deplorable or, you know, you’re a Nazi if you vote for Trump. I don’t know if they used that exact word, but it felt like that.”
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