The latest news from Crypto-et-Côte are all about the Democrats in the Senate cold feet on the Stable Bill (the Act on Engineering). The same bill for which they voted Only two months ago. Why the rocking? Because they don’t like Trump and They think that the bill will help him take advantage. Why the Democrats continue to strike “rereading” on this losing message exceeds me. To hate Trump does not win the elections. Simply refer to the 2024 electoral bloodbath.
But here is the kicker: the crypto is not the threat, that is an opportunity. If the Democrats dropped their losers’ tunes for a long time to really learn crypto, they would not just write better policy, they would rewrite their political future in 2026.
By figures
In 2024, Democrats lost a generation. The young men who had historically leaned harshly for the Democrats fled. In just four years, young men have gone from the support of Biden to give Trump a 30 -point swing, Hard -cleaner against the very candidate they have rejected. Although there is a lot of soul research to make for why, an answer hides in sight: crypto.
Yes, crypto. And despite the points of discussion of Big Crypto, it is not because young male voters are voters of cryptocurrenization. They are not. This is because crypto, like other emerging technologies of the past, reflects generational and gender divisions that reflect the trends we see in young male voters.
According to a Pew Research Center Survey41% of young men used crypto. These are orders of size superior to young women (16%) and people over 50 (8%). So, even if this young male voter does not hold Crypto himself, 42% of his peer group is. It is in its social media flows, its podcast rotations, its group discussions. And at the moment, it only hears one side of history, because the Democrats have refused to learn technology.
It is important to remember that these young men are not all online crooks. These are the same share Democratic values such as “basic health insurance is a right” and “government should spend more to reduce poverty”.
Democrats can continue to call Crypto a criminal business again and again, but that does not make one. The only effective thing he does is to tell all young men that DEMS want to cancel them. And we saw how young men punished them for this at the voting stand.
Confuse Trump with crypto
Let’s say the calm part aloud: crypto-natives do not want to see Trump as the face of this community. He and his family promote the same kind of rug-pull projects that the cryptographic community has spent years fighting. So why did young men voted for him? Because even with grifting, he does not know them completely or, worse, claiming that they are not something.
Go to any crypto meeting or conference and you will know that manufacturers do not concern media tokens or centralized projects not subject to endorsements. Crypto aims to give people control their money, data and digital identity. Philosophy is based on mistrust won towards centralized institutions: Wall Street, Big Tech and the Federal Government (more recently proven by Doge’s speed of access to all our data).
Mantras often mentioned in the community prove the point:
● “Do not trust. Check.”
● “Not your keys, not your parts.”
● “If you don’t know where the yield comes from, You are the yield. “”
These are not the vibrations of blind allegiance. The cryptographic community was born from the 2008 financial crisis, when the banks collapsed under their own misconduct and the taxpayers have prepared the bill. Integrated into Bitcoin genesis block is the recall coded in a hard: “Chancellor Times 03 / January / 2009 on the edge of the second bailout for banks.”
The insistence of Democrats to confuse this community with Trump’s opportunism is lazy. The obvious consequence has been to repel the voters they desperately need.
The corrective is simple, but limited in time
Of course, some politicians may be a little afraid of the campaign money involved: crypto PACs have noted $ 260 million, Make crypto the sixth Super PAC, eclipping any other Super CAP supported by industry (all the others are linked to a party or a particular candidate). But these gifts came only from 50 individuals. It is not a movement. It is a small elevator hall.
Meanwhile, there is a whole electoral base of millions of young men who turned to crypto because of their distrust of Wall Street and Big Tech. The same democratic distrust shares these same centralized entities. Democrats do not have to adopt draft media or approve poor legislation. In fact, they shouldn’t. But they must really learn to adopt the fundamental values of manufacturers of the cryptographic community: individual digital property and decentralization.
Democrats must also start to demonstrate this now. They cannot risk another cycle without bringing young men back under the tent. A cycle can be a blip, but two row cycles become a habit and habits are difficult to break.
Correction of the course
The Genius Act is in fact the ideal opportunity for Democrats to show that they are a party more interested in voters than on the points of life against Trump. THE draft is 57 pages of legislative jargon to raise the roles of centralized entities in the supervision of Stablecoins. No surprise. Do you remember these 50 people who have raised $ 260 million for the Crypto Super PAC? They will certainly benefit from an increased dependence on their intermediation.
But integrated into the bill is a small definition that does a lot of work, and it is the definition of “distributed book”. Instead of hating Trump, Democrats could come together to say that the definition does not require decentralization or security of networks, and until it occurs, they cannot advance a bill of stable which only promotes central intermediaries. Now this could be the start of a real sea change.
Democrats would not even need to mention Trump. The reality would be that none of Trump’s family crypto projects survive a definition that required real decentralization.
So here is the real question: do democrats want to continue to lose elections just to avoid learning a new technology? Or are they finally ready to act as a party that wants to win votes again?
