Posted on 03/30/2025 5:51:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
For years, the Democratic political figures, liberal activists, and the resistance movement writ large have drawn morbid comfort from the fact that Donald Trump’s supporters were, frankly, quite old.
The Trump phenomenon, they believed, had an expiration date sometime in the near future: Young voters would replace their parents and grandparents as demographics shifted, and all would be right — or rather, left — with the world.
The 2024 election has shattered these hopes.
Trump’s gains with young people are so massive that Gen Z might as well be called Gen Trump.
Data guru David Shor laid bare this stark reality in an interview with The New York Times’ Ezra Klein last week; Shor walked Klein through the ramifications of his polling insights and voter analyses, which reveal a historically unprecedented rightward shift among young people, particularly young males.
Trump won voters under the age of 26; white women, white men and black men in this demographic all leaned in Trump’s direction.
The former president won 18-year-old nonwhite men outright.
Young people, Shor notes, appear to be “the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years.”
Podcast revolution The reasons for this are not hard to grasp.
First and foremost, Trump and his surrogates have become masterful communicators on Gen Z’s preferred media platforms: podcasts, social media and especially TikTok.
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Hopefully they resent the lockdowns, and those who perpetrated them.
I would imagine right now he could do even better. They can’t buy houses and have to pay out of sight rents because they pay taxes siphoned off for USAID to dump into high flying NGOs whose presidents and principals can afford grand houses in the most expensive parts of the country.
It helped President Trump to have an eighteen-year-old son. Thank you, Barron.
Here’s the thing those Gen Z types will vote for Trump but does that translate to other Republicans remains to be seen. As Donald is the king of getting the low propensity voter out to vote.
I REALLY Hope President Trump starts his own 15 minute fireside chats every couple weeks to summarize what has been learned about the deep corruption of the swamp, how unelected judges are preventing Trump from ridding the country of murderous illegal thugs, how the swamp wastes a trillion dollars per year on horrific garbage, how those expenditures harms society, how it harms other nations, how the money gets to Democrat cronies, and what that means to the pocketbook of young people.
There is such a rich gold mine of material to present to the American people simply and clearly. It would force the left to defend their garbage.
The youth of today are quite cynical of all institutions.
And rightfully so. Look at the mess institutions have left for them.
Wage slavery, corruption everywhere, taxation to the point that the middle class are near poverty, and the “unfortunates” are allowed to rape and pillage without repercussion.
PDJT and MAGA are our last chance...
In that aspect, Gen Z is more similar to Gen X.
Millennials and Baby Boomers are woke.
Not all Baby Boomers are woke. That is a sick generalization. It depends. President Trump is a baby boomer, but so are Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Baby Boomers are also the 45-64 age group. Not my fault the old hippies are skewing the results. You said “boomers.” I am just in that group that increased Democrat support. Plus that is a HUGE age group, the 65+.
Assuming 61+ lean Democratic.
Part of it is that they believe in the propaganda that Trump is going to cut the benefits.
I'm in my mid 70s and I don't know any old hippies my age, in fact the only hippies I saw in the '60s when I was a teenager were on TV or in Hollywood.
P.S. The very youngest boomers, born in 1964 are now 61.
Bkmk
Democrats’ disdain for young men
Indeed note all the snake oil shows the democrats are doing with town hall speeches the audience is mostly old people and hard core democrats.
MSM a tad shy of showing to many of the meetings.
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