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.

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    Leftists are intolerant of fascists who want to kill and harm innocent people for no good reason.

    Please go actually read the wiki page on the Paradox of Tolerance.

    Its a bit of a misnomer, its not actually a paradox. The solution is do not tolerate the intolerant, otherwise the intolerant win.

    Liberals are tolerant of fascists, which is why fascists are able to thrive, liberals attempt to take them seriously, defeat them in the battle of ‘ideas’, do battle with them in conventional ways which they essentially always fail out, because facists don’t abide by the norms or civility politics that liberals build their entire political identity out of.

    Their whole thing is breaking from all the liberal norms and standards, and liberals basically just continuously act ‘shocked pikachu face’ and aghast at every horrific thing a fascist says or does… while not resisting them in any actually meaningful way.

    You can’t make a bridge to a fascist. Doing that makes you either not a leftist, or a very very stupid one.

    Just go look into the history of fascist movements, this same pattern plays out every time. Liberals make concessions to fascists and move to the right, increasing overall societal harm.

    Leftists either vehemently oppose the fascists, or, in some instances, they attempt some kind of anti centrist alliance with the fascists out of expediancy, and then they nearly all get literally hunted down in the streets by the fascists if they do succeed at knocking out the center.

    You can’t logic a fascist into not being a fascist.

    They’re delusional cult members, they have ‘alternative facts’, and when they tire with those, they’ll wrap around to some other avenue of discussion, lies you already debunked.

    The only thing that can stop them is either ‘impolite’ means of resisting them, or just hoping the internal contradictions of their movement lead to its eventual implosion… without causing too much damage.

    And they usually cause a very significant amount of damage by the time they metastasize, and afterward.