Why are White Conservative Men So Angry?

An honest answer to a genuine question

My very own sometimes-angry white conservative man, Thy Jester. Image created by author.

I recently read an article by Jack Vance asking why white conservative men had become so angry. There was no malice in the question, no reciprocal anger, which I greatly applaud and respect; the author seemed to sincerely want to know.

Conservative White Men: Why Are They So Angry?

He posited that the media, in particular Fox News, is stirring up anger among its conservative base. This is absolutely the case, just as other media outlets are whipping up liberal hysteria; but the anger had to already exist in some measure for this to be accomplished so incredibly effectively.

Many comments offered the answer that conservative white men were feeling their place of power slipping away from them, and this upset them. While this suggestion certainly has some basis in reality, it does not account for the millions of men who were already disempowered in their personal lives long before our culture wars ballooned to their current proportions. It is an overly simplistic answer which merely reinforces the liberal narrative, and does not account for the…