The latest news of cryptographic and congress are about the Senate Democrats being obtained cold feet On the Stablecoin bill (the genius law). The same bill by which they voted Just two months ago. Why Flip-Flop? Because they don’t like Trump and They think that the bill will help him benefit. Why the Democrats continue to press “reproduction” in this loser message are beyond me. Hate Trump does not win the elections. Just consult the electoral blood bath of 2024.
But here is the kicker: Crypto is not the threat, it is the opportunity. If the Democrats abandoned their losing sound enough to really learn cryptography, they would not only write a better policy, they would rewrite their political future in 2026.
For the numbers
In 2024, the Democrats lost a generation. The young men who historically have been inclined hard for the Democrats fled. In just four years, young people backed Biden to give Trump a 30 -point swing, turning strongly against the candidate who once rejected. While there are many search for the soul to do about why, an answer is to hide with the naked eye: cryptography.
Yes, cryptography. And despite the Big Crypto conversation points, it is not because young male voters are cryptographic voters of a single problem. They are not. It is because cryptography, like other emerging technologies of the past, reflects generational and gender divisions that reflect the trends we are seeing among young male voters.
According to a PEW Research Center Survey41% of young men have used cryptography. This is orders of magnitude greater than young women (16%) and people over 50 (8%). So, even if that young male voter is not holding the cryptography himself, 42% of his peer group is. He is in his social media feeds, his podcast rotations, his chat group. And at this time, he is listening only one side of history, because the Democrats have refused to learn technology.
It is important to remember that these young people are not all online cryptographic scammers. They are the same as overwhelmingly 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 company again and again, but it does not make it one. The only effective thing is to tell all young people that Democrats want to cancel them. And we have seen how young men have punished them in the voting cabin.
Confusing Trump with crypto
Let’s say the quiet part aloud: crypto-nationals do not want to see Trump as the face of this community. He and his family are promoting the same type of carpet projects as the cryptographic community has been fighting for years. So why did young men vote for him? Because even with the complaint, it does not ignore them completely or, what is worse, pretending that they are something that they are not.
Go to any meeting or cryptography conference and will know that builders are not about hype tokens or centralized projects pointed only by endorsements. Crypto is about giving people control of their money, their data and their digital identity. The ethos is based on the distrust of the centralized institutions: Wall Street, Big Tech and the Federal Government (more recently tested by Doge’s access speed to all our data).
The often quoted mantras of the community demonstrate the point:
● “Do not trust. Verify.”
● “They are not your keys, not your coins.”
● “If you don’t know where performance comes from, you They are performance. “
These are not the vibrations of blind loyalty. The cryptographic community was born from the financial crisis of 2008, when the banks collapsed under their own misconduct and the taxpayers made the bill. Embedded in Bitcoin Genesis block It is the coded reminder: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor in Brink of the second rescue for banks.”
The insistence of the Democrats to combine that community with Trump’s opportunism is lazy. The obvious consequence has been to move the same voters who desperately need.
The solution is simple, but limited by time
Of course, some politicians may be a little fear of the money of the campaign involved: the cryptographic PACs have raised $ 260 million, Making cryptography the sixth super larger pac, eclipsing any other Super PAC backed by industry (everyone else is related to a particular party or candidate). But those donations came from only 50 people. That is not a movement. It is a small lobby of the elevator.
Meanwhile, there is an entire basis of voters of millions of young people who resorted to cryptography due to their distrust of Wall Street and Big Tech. The same distrust democrats share from those same centralized entities. Democrats do not have to embrace exaggerated coins or support bad legislation. In fact, they should not. But they do need to learn to adopt the central values of builders in the cryptographic community: individual digital property and decentralization.
Democrats must also start demonstrating this now. They cannot risk another cycle without returning young men under the store. A cycle can be a blip, but two followed cycles become a habit, and habits are difficult to break.
Course correction
Genius law is actually the perfect opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate that they are a party that is more interested in voters than in the sound against Trump. He Current draft There are 57 pages of legislative jargon to raise the roles of centralized entities to supervise the stable. It is not a surprise. Do you remember those 50 people who raised $ 260 million for the Super Pac crypto? They will definitely benefit from a greater dependence on their intermediation.
But embedded in the draft legislation is a small definition that is doing a lot of work, and that is the definition of “distributed older book”. Instead of hating Trump, the Democrats could join to say that the definition does not require decentralization or safety of the network, and until that happens, they cannot advance in a Stablcoin bill that only promotes central intermediaries of taking rates. Now that could be the beginning of a true sea change.
Democrats wouldn’t even need to mention Trump. The reality would be that none of the cryptographic projects of the Trump family would survive a definition that required true decentralization.
So, here is the real question: Do the Democrats want to continue losing choices just to avoid learning new technology? Or are they finally ready to act as a game that wants to win votes?
