“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”
Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/10/28/maga-dating-scene-washington/
Archived: https://archive.ph/VY8TuInstead, many of the single MAGA men she’s seen are … “Not fit, workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously,” Housley says.
If she had it her way, she would be married and expecting her first kid. She says a lot of her colleagues at the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group whose website says “in order to save America — we have to save the family,” are settling down and having children. But it’s rough out there.
Newly arrived MAGA singles face a percentage problem: 92.5 percent of the city voted for Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.
A perfect moment of discovering the discrepancy between MAGA ideology on “paper” and in reality.
The article is a fun read.
This is the funniest article I’ve seen in a while.
“I’m doing everything I can to make the nation a less tolerant, more hateful place. Why can’t I find love?”
Reminds me of an article from a few years back, alt-right women complaining that men in the alt-right scene are too sexist
Any man who considers trump an alpha has no idea what an alpha male is.
Alpha is a made up term based on a retracted theory of wolf behavior.
I have no sympathy and don’t even agree this is a problem. Bible-thumping conservative, Evangelical Christians have been here since the founding of this country and they have always found a way to restock their ranks of indoctrinated children throughout the generations. In my opinion, they’re a cancer in society, and I see no end to their presence in the near future. Even if this particular woman never finds a husband she can accept, enough like her will, and they will produce another generation of bigoted youngsters, intent on anchoring this country in their naïve, idealized, theocratic vision of the past.
I wish I could say they’re being left behind by more modern, sensible people, but the truth of the matter is that they’re succeeding at holding the rest of us back with their antiquated, bigoted ways.
Mostly agree, however:
they have always found a way to restock their ranks of indoctrinated children throughout the generations.
This does not seem to be the case in Washington:
Newly arrived MAGA singles face a percentage problem: 92.5 percent of the city voted for Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.
“Before 2016, I did not even have a question on my intake form about politics,” says Michelle Jacoby, founder of DC Matchmaking and a dating coach. “It was just a nonissue.” Where a person might’ve wanted to appear more moderate in the past, they wear their beliefs on their sleeves now.
Earlier this year, during the DOGE days, Trombetti (CEO of Exclusive Matchmaking) says, one liberal man asked her not to pair him with any Tesla drivers. Liberal women whom she would typically call “wallflowers” — open to dating anyone — were now against any Republicans.
Most conservatives we talked to for this article said they would be willing to date someone whose politics aren’t perfectly aligned with the conservative movement, but that comes with some caveats. “There’s a lot of (…) people on the left calling people on the right ‘fascists’ and ‘Nazis,’” said a 27-year-old Republican staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because her employer did not allow her to speak to the press. “I think if somebody genuinely thought that, they probably wouldn’t want to date me anyways, but like, that’s a red flag, because then you think that I’m that, which I’m not, whatsoever, and never will be. But I mean, my partner can’t think I’m a fascist. That’s crazy.”
Rather than dealing with all that mess, many conservatives just choose to date among themselves.
Like a small college in a larger city, the new conservative dating scene is insular but active. (…) Debono, a political consultant, has been hosting “Make America Hot Again” mixers for conservatives in New York. In Washington, the scene as MAGA returned to power was rowdier. And — surprise! — supplying a bunch of young people with limitless booze didn’t necessarily yield wholesome, chaste courtships.
But some conservative women are looking for more than all that. (…) Taylor Hathorn, a 33-year-old defense contractor and political commentator who lives in Alexandria, Virginia, has been on some 50 dates in the past six years, looking for a good conservative Christian man to no avail. Hathorn says she has tried to date with noble intentions. She (…) wants to get to know the person she’s out with. She tries to ask thoughtful but revealing questions: Where does he go to church? What is he reading?
Republicans seem to have manoevered themselves into a no-win situation wrt dating and procreation.
