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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      Hah, well, given how frequently mine has directly ruined my life, betrayed me, and more recently, attempted to kill me, I guess I’ll take that as a compliment.

      Yeah, it would be a terrible weakness if I still loved or attempted to have any contact with a bunch of dysfunctional, violent, abusive narcissists.

      There’s a difference between ‘haters’ and ‘have directly tried to destroy you, multiple times’.

      And thats just how fascists ultimately act, the behavior they ultimately enable against their outgroup, or, as in this and every other ‘leopards ate my face’ type story… themselves, their ingroup, their own family.

      But hey I guess if your family is just ‘fascist-lite’, then I’m sure they’d never do anything to hurt you, right?

      Because theae morally bankrupt people, well, they love you, so its fine.

      Spoiler: If they’re actually fascists, they hate you and they want you to die.

      If they got into it as a fad, they’re too stupid to be trusted with any complex task, and will be that stupid again.