The “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call last Monday night, with some 90,000 registered to participate, was surely a landmark in political history.
Nearly 200 years ago, when the Democratic Party was being formed to elect and reelect Andrew Jackson, the entire American electorate, with exceptions, such as black New Englanders, property-owning black New Yorkers, and New Jersey widows, was made up of “white dudes.”
Unlike most organizers of ethnic and demographic groups backing a party’s candidate, White Dudes for Harris founder Mark Greene has dim regard for his target group. “Man Box culture has positioned white men at the top of a bullying and rigid dominance-based culture of masculinity which teaches us that the only power that matters is the power we create over others,” Greene writes in an X post.
“The result,” he goes on, “has been an economic,…
