You might wonder why the "conservative" answer to men's mental health struggles or joblessness and such suddenly is no longer the traditional traditional masculine "man up and deal with it" but has changed into "this requires politicians getting involved!"
So if you're not a conservative who's picked this up as a thing to push forward your career with, you can't "not politicize" it because once something is politicized you can't put it back in the jar.
EDIT: And if those politicians, however disingenuous, are successful in politicizing it... well doesn't that just mean it resonates with a lot of people and then the left should talk about it because it's important to people?