Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election

Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election

Male Gen Z voters are breaking with Donald Trump and the Republican party at large, recent polls show, less than a year after this same cohort defied convention and made a surprise shift right, helping Trump win the 2024 election.

Taken with wider polling suggesting Democrats will lead in the midterms, the findings on young men spell serious trouble for the Republican Party in 2026.

Younger Gen Z men, those born between 2002 and 2007, may be even more anti-Trump, according to October research from YouGov and the Young Men’s Research Project, a potential sign that their time living through the social upheavals of the Covid pandemic and not being political aware during the first Trump administration may be shaping their experience.

  • bunchberry@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Pick the closest one of the two and push it in your favored direction. Your comment is a long-winded way of saying that the two-party system should be abolished.

    No, I am saying that “pick the closest one of the two and push it in your favored direction” makes zero sense. It is like voting for the Racism Party™ and expecting them to run anti-racism candidates, or that you will “push” the Racism Party™ to be anti-racist. That isn’t gong to happen. The Racism Party™ would exist to push racism, it would exist to convince you to support its platform and vote for it.

    The internet exists these days. We can all pull up videos going back decades to back when they were black-and-white of people talking about the needs of “pushing Democrats to the left” and yet generations later they are still a right-wing jingoist genocidal party. There is an old saying, “the definition of insanity is dong the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The same strategy is used for decades with everyone insisting that it’s the only strategy that can ever work yet it never works.

    How much longer do we have to wait before this strategy works? Will Democrats become a left-wing party election, the election after, the one after that? I guarantee you that everyone will listen to you as they do every election cycle and your strategy will continue to be the one used again, again, and again. So I am just curious in how long you think it will take for your strategy to bear fruits.