Politics

The Manosphere Turns on Trump

How many times can a coalition crack before it shatters?

First published in The Atlantic on March 29, 2026.

by Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic
April 2, 2026 | reading time: 8 Min.

About half an hour into Episode 694 of the Flagrant podcast, and after a lively debate over manscaping methods, Andrew Schulz leaned back into the couch and brought the chin-wag to a screeching halt. “Are you guys, like—do you feel existential anxiety about the war?” he asked his co-hosts. Schulz seemed to be feeling some. “Americans can’t fucking afford health care,” he said later. “They don’t care about what’s happening in Iran!” War hawks have been angling for years for this war, he added. With President Trump, “they found a guy stupid enough to do it.”

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