On Dec. 18, 2025, the British comedian and actor Russell Brand spoke at America Fest, the Turning Point USA summit, where he talked about his faith in Jesus, speculated that Hunter Biden used Joe Biden’s autopen to smoke crack and attacked the Covid vaccine. On Thursday, a London court found him guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. Sexual assault allegations against Brand first surfaced in September 2023, after a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times of London and Channel 4 Dispatches.
Meanwhile, men age 18-44 shifted 32 points to the left in the U.S. House of Representatives vote, and nonwhite men age 18-29 shifted 40 points, according to The New York Times’s voter trends analysis. This was not supposed to happen. The Republican Party has long been seen as the party of men, especially young men, home to the manosphere and to U.F.C. fights on the South Lawn of the White House.
The party’s 2024 convention was a celebration of Republican manhood, featuring Dana White, Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock and Donald Trump. Trump won in part on a multiracial surge in male support, taking 63 percent of the white male vote, 50 percent of the Hispanic male vote and 19 percent of Black men. But the author argues that the realignment was never going to last, pointing to the troubled personal histories of the convention’s headliners and asking how many fathers want their sons to grow up like them.
The author also points to the speakers at last year’s America Fest, including Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, whose rise followed his promotion of the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, and Kid Rock, who headlined Turning Point USA’s alternative to the Super Bowl halftime show. Far-right men have also flocked to figures like Andrew Tate, who faces criminal charges including rape and sex trafficking, and Nick Fuentes.
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