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.

  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    voting got us here. now what. The next election may as well be fascist vs probably not a fascist

    • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      It literally did not. Even going back to just the last election (which is not where the problems started), people that stayed home could have prevented this.

      If “did not vote” had been a candidate:

      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I voted. What more can I do? I cannot vote more. I am doing everything I can apparently. There’s not a single thing other than voting that will fix this, obviously.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I think you’ll find that a large segment of the population did not in fact vote.