The Republican Party Is Cooked

Let’s stop pretending Republicans give a shit about the country – and everyone under 40 knows it. For 25 years, what exactly has the Republican Party done for young men besides complain about progressive agendas and play the victim every time a left-leaning Congress pushes taxes higher?

They haven’t delivered. And they sure as hell haven’t secured a future for young men in this country.

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1. The GOP’s Biggest Accomplishment

The U.S. government has spent roughly $8 trillion on the post-9/11 wars when you include operations, interest, and veteran care — this isn’t speculation, it’s documented by Brown University’s Watson Institute.

It was overwhelmingly young millennial men who fought those wars, absorbed the physical and psychological toll, and lost years of stability, opportunity, and forward momentum in their lives.

And what did we actually gain? Nothing. No victory. No nation-building. No strategic success. Just a generation burned out and a government that shrugged.

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2. The Worst Recession in a Century — Delivered Right on Schedule

The Great Recession (2007–2009), driven heavily by the same deregulation and financial blindness Republicans championed, annihilated the early careers of millions.

Wages stagnated for more than a decade after.
Entry-level men got hammered.
We’re still living with the fallout.

This recession permanently altered wage trajectories and wealth accumulation patterns. Republicans pretended it was some unavoidable natural disaster — not the direct result of decades of policy choices by both parties. Spare us the rhetoric of Republicans being the party of fiscal responsibility.

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3. Housing Is a Disaster — And Republicans Have No Plan

This is the big one. Housing affordability is dead for young men.

Let’s look at actual data:

• 53% of aspiring first-time buyers don’t expect to own a home until age 40 or later, according to Fortune.
• A third of all households are now cost-burdened, spending 30%+ of income on housing (Pew Research).
• Back in 1969, 97% of markets were affordable to young families. From 2018–2022, it was only 41% (Institute for Family Studies).

We’re talking about the foundation of adulthood — home, family, stability — and the ladder has been kicked out from under an entire generation. And the GOP response? The same “the market will fix it” nonsense they’ve been repeating since 1980.

Meanwhile, young men can’t start their lives, can’t start families, and can’t build wealth.

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4. Inflation Never Went Away — It Just Became Permanent

Here’s another one Republicans love to posture about without actually doing anything:

• Inflation peaked around 7–9% in 2021–2022.
• Today it’s still around 3% — well above the historic normal.

And the key fact?
Nothing deflated.
Prices didn’t come back down. They stayed exactly where they spiked and actually continued to rise, just at a slower rate.

Groceries, housing, insurance, cars, healthcare — all permanently higher. We reset the entire economy upward. Republicans rant about inflation, sure, but they have never once proposed a plan to reverse it.

Because reversing inflation means touching corporate profits, and that’s off limits.

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5. H-1B Visas and Foreign Student Pipelines — Still Wide Open

Let’s be clear: the GOP has been fully complicit in importing foreign labor to undercut American workers.

Some highlights:

• House Republicans recently pushed back on Trump’s proposal for higher H-1B fees, meaning they want to keep the program cheap and flowing.
• Trump himself doubled down on bringing in 600,000 Chinese students to U.S. universities — Fox News covered that exact number.

Explain to me how this is “America First.”

Those could have been American students earning those degrees.
Young American workers earning those jobs.
Young American men building those skills.

Instead, the message is: You’re replaceable. We’d rather import talent.

If Americans “don’t know how to do certain jobs,” you train them.

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6. Trump Had 10 Years to Build a Movement — He Built Nothing

This is the part nobody wants to hear: Trump had a full decade to build an America First political machine, and he didn’t.

There is:

• No bench
• No youth pipeline
• No institutional infrastructure
• No conservative counterpart to the cultural and educational machinery the Left built
• No America First think tanks, academies, media arms, or leadership incubators

The movement didn’t expand. It didn’t mature. It didn’t build depth.
It stayed dependent on one man, one persona, one campaign.

Ten years later the Republican Party looks exactly the same as before — just older, weaker, and more confused.

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7. The GOP Lost the Culture War Without Even Showing Up

Young men today feel disconnected from institutions, purpose, stability, and adulthood.
Democrats filled every inch of cultural space:

• Universities
• Media
• Entertainment
• Tech platforms
• Youth organizations
• Social infrastructure

What did the GOP build?

Nothing.

Not one serious youth institution exists outside of Turning Point USA, and after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, young Americans were offered nothing beyond the standard “thoughts and prayers” and a made-for-TV memorial spectacle in his honor — no new programs, no new investment, no serious effort to build anything lasting for them.
Not one modern institution that competes culturally.
Not one pipeline that gives young men meaning or direction.

A political party that fails to shape culture will lose the next generation. Period. The GOP didn’t just fail — they refused to fight.

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Young Men Are Not Stupid — They See the Collapse

Let’s list the reality again:

• No housing
• No family formation
• No path to build wealth
• Higher inflation baked in permanently
• Foreign labor pipelines still wide open
• No cultural support structures
• No real plan from the GOP to fix any of it

This isn’t a coincidence. It’s policy failure. Structural failure. Leadership failure.

And Republicans pretend they’re the “party of young men.”
Based on what?

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The GOP Is Cooked

The Republican Party isn’t dying because Democrats outmaneuvered them.
It’s dying because it abandoned the one demographic that should be its foundation.

A political realignment is coming — and it’s going to hit the GOP harder than anyone else.
The only question now is: who will actually fight for young men in this country?

Because right now, it sure as hell isn’t the Republican Party.

Young men can’t turn to the Left with it’s ridiculous woke ideology that castrates men for who they are. And clearly they can no longer turn to the Right. So where do they go?

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