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Gen Z men are moving away from MAGA in droves, polls show (www.independent.co.uk)
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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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[+] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Ah yes, the Hillary Clinton strategy...

    You're aware these people will be voting for another ~50 years right?

    They're idiot kids who were taken advantage of, and you want to drive them to the right, by acting like someone on the right?

    If you want to help, maybe you should become a Republican and chase people away from that party?

    If you don't want the R by your name to help the left, I don't understand why you're literally and significantly helping the right in that very comment

    Do you just not under the ramifications of advocating for chasing teenagers away from the Dem party for life because of one vote?

    I mean, we just got Hillary, Biden, and Kamala shoved down our throats. Lots of people who didn't vote for any of those three can still be dependable lifelong Dem voters moving forward

    We just have to stop shoving uncharismatic conservatives down their throats because "it's the only other option".

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Not only did they not research anyone before going into the voting booth, they weren’t involved in any step of the process. If they’re so mad about stuff why aren’t they doing the groundwork or even participating in primaries?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The last real Democratic Party primary was in 2020.

    Most of the people we are talking about were literally too young to participate in a meaningful primary.

    They had no opportunity to be involved in the process, and now they are being blamed for not participating. That's the modern Democratic Party in a nutshell.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The last real Democratic Party primary was in 2020.

    The last fair primary was the one before Jimmy Carter...

    08 Obama won an unfair primary, but just because he managed to pull it off doesn't retroactively make it fair.

    2020 Biden was doing poorly until SC, got his only good performance, and then like a day before super Tuesday everyone except Biden and Bernie dropped, they all started campaigning for Biden. And then the DNC said that was a mandate for Biden and started pushing Bernie to also bow out.

    It might not have been an outright fix, but it was more than a finger on the scale and sure as shit wasn't fair.

    I have high hopes the next one will show everyone what a legitimately unbiased primary looks like.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yea Bernie was robbed, the DNC worked hard to sabotage his candidacy every step of the way. If Bernie got a fair shot, we would never have to utter the words "President Trump".

    But what about the Obama 08 primary was rigged?

    I think candidate Obama was a amazing liar- he lied about ending the wars and punishing the war criminals, he lied about immigration reform, he lied about healthcare reform, he lied about closing the torture prison at Guantanamo, etc etc. It's easy to blame Republican opposition, but Obama gave up on most of these major promises without a fight.

    A lying politician is normal though. What makes it rigged?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    2020 Biden was doing poorly until SC, got his only good performance, and then like a day before super Tuesday everyone except Biden and Bernie dropped, they all started campaigning for Biden.

    Warren didnt drop out also.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Screeching at people who didn’t vote for the incumbent party running a k-shaped economy and funding a genocide isn’t going to get you anywhere. You can’t run on “oh this guy is so bad” if you spent 4 whole years doing nothing about the guy who is so bad and expect to win, especially if you start racing him to the bottom on immigration and foreign policy.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Tell someone "fuck you", declare them delusional morons and blame everything wrong with the world on them

    they don't vote for you

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Plot twist: It actually is their fault though

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why? you are the one telling them to fuck off.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    They're the delusional ones that voted for insanity?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    How is doing everything you can to make sure we lose again not delusional?

    I think a lot of liberals don't even want to win. I think a lot of them want to say 'see? I told you this would happen!' As they are hauled off to a gas chamber.

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