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Young male voters are flocking to Trump – but he doesn’t have their interests at heart
(www.theguardian.com)
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Every gen Z kid I know is having an issue trying to pick a pro-Palestine candidate. They seem to dislike Biden more than Harris, but I have never heard of trump support. I'm sure some amount of gen Z are trumpers but they are a minority, saying young male voters are "flocking" to trump is pretty silly. "There are literally dozens of us!"
I hate to say this, but you're probably living in a bit of a bubble. I know I was.
A lot of men, across all age ranges, tend to lean fascist. There's a lot of reasons for this, but the core problem is that progressive neoliberalism does a terrible job speaking to cis-het male anxieties, while fascism welcomes them with open arms.
It's all bullshit, of course, but at least they're being heard.
Progressive politicians really need to let the 1990s go. Third-way triangulation worked great then, but it's ineffective now.
Terrible is a bit of an understatement. Men complain about bleak social and economic prospects only to be meet with insults that go right to the metaphorical jugular of every mans ego.
Except Trump voters were more likely to be small business owners.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/
How is it that the left isn't discussing inequality enough for these guys? That's a load.
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/the-five-types-trump-voters
Staunch conservatives make up 31% and Free Marketers make up 25% of Trump voters, that's majority.
Further the high levels of social trust displayed by the staunch conservative set speak to them having successful lives. You don't end up with high levels of social trust if you are beaten down, can't find work, and people act like you just aren't trying hard enough. The staunch conservatives also deny climate change, which is harder for young people who are experiencing pollution and hot, dry summers to deny.
So the majority of Trump voters are older conservatives with comfortable lives.
By contrast, the "poor" group, American Preservationists, only clock in at 20% of Trump voters. This lie that they're all pushed to Trump by economics when the "poor" group is also the uneducated group you're gonna have a hard sell on proving to me that they even understand enough about economics to be upset about it. Or, barring that, whatever they're upset about they still don't actually understand with enough depth to really be making an informed decision.
Either the young men are truly in the minority or they are working long overnight shifts and not actually heading to the voting booth when they get off work. In the latter case, they aren't a meaningful political bloc if they don't vote.