As Democrats investigate what went wrong in the 2021 elections and what is going wrong heading into the 2022 elections, a familiar pattern is emerging: Men are abandoning the party in droves.

Just this week, snippets from the Democratic Governors Association’s postmortem of the Virginia governor’s race were made public, including the report’s conclusion, which read, “We need to address the long-term problems that exist for Democrats with Latinos and black men.”