Posted on 10/21/2024 10:35:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Generation Z is poised to flex its growing political muscle in the 2024 presidential election, and in my surveys and focus groups with these voters, I’m seeing the strong potential for a turning point in American political alignment. Unlike other recent Republican presidential nominees, Donald Trump is making young men a central focus of his campaign. If effective, his effort could peel enough away from the Democratic Party to transform the country’s electoral math for years to come.
Recent data from the Harvard Youth Poll, a national survey I oversee for the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, reveals an increasing political rift between young men and women under 30, two groups critical to Democrats’ success in recent elections. Almost exactly equal shares of young men and young women say they will definitely vote in this election or have already done so. But since the spring of 2020, the share of young men identifying as registered Democrats has dropped by seven percentage points, while those identifying as Republicans have increased by seven points — a net shift of 14 points in just four years. Young women, during the same period, shifted two points away from the Republicans.
Take one young Pittsburgh man I met in a recent focus group. A college graduate working part-time as a bartender, he felt weighed down by hopelessness, adrift in a country where rising costs, stagnant wages and lack of affordable housing have made even the modest ambitions of other generations feel out of reach for him. “Hope is great,” he told me, “but I see nothing for the future.”
The young man’s experience reflects a broader crisis of confidence and purpose, rooted in economic insecurity and social disconnection. The Covid pandemic exacerbated the alienation, with many first-time voters spending...
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They’ve been looking for American exceptionalism. They’ve found it.
Because that's what men do.
This is what happens when you push actual men to far, no speeches, just action and usually unannounced.
This same thing happened in ‘82-88.
Bush 41 was handed a generation of potential GOP voters and he pissed it away.
It’s not Trump’s ‘Bro-whispering.’ It’s the audacity and phony bullsh!t bro-talk from Obama playin’ like he’s their daddy or something scolding them. Or Que-Mala saying they’re misogynists for not supporting her. Everything coming out of the NYT isn’t worth spit right now....not when it’s positive for Que-Mala and Timmy...
Read my Hips fumbled away a lot of things. A lasting ally, or at least a non-enemy, with Russia as a hedge against an ascendant china.
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