Bernie Bro Elegy

Nathan J. Robinson wants you to know he is nobody’s victim—and with his signature Willy Wonka-esque attire and William Buckley-esque mid-Atlantic accent, he never seemed like one. A 2020 Daily Beast profile of him informed readers that “not all Bernie Bros are angry young men” and described his project as about “making life joyful again.” In any case, this week Robinson saw fit to weigh in on Jacob Savage’s mega-viral Compact essay “The Lost Generation” by informing his followers on X that it “the whole ‘white men are falling behind’ narrative is nonsense.” It was a follow-up to an earlier post in which Robinson declared “white men are doing fine actually” and linked to an article in his magazine, Current Affairs, that claimed to debunk Savage’s earlier article, “The Vanishing White Male Writer.”