A poll shows the president's net favorable rating among those aged 18-29 has fallen dramatically in the past three months.

Summary

Donald Trump’s popularity among Generation Z voters has sharply declined since the 2024 election, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll.

His net favorability among 18-29-year-olds has dropped from +19 in November to -18, raising concerns for Republicans about sustaining youth support.

While Trump gained ground with young voters in 2024, recent policies—such as his mass deportation plan and targeting of DEI initiatives—may have contributed to this decline.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    People don’t want to hear the truth. Look at the sales on fiction vs. non-fiction.

    This is an unfair comparison, it’s like taking university textbook sales and comparing it to the bible and going “clearly people don’t want science and data!”

    To be fair, it is probably a true statement, if you were to analyze the content and media that people consume, it’s likely to be very low in “hard facts” so i will give you that one, i just think it’s an unreasonable comparison to be making.

    A lot of the big sales in non-fiction (at least the heavily fact valued ones) are going to be books about like, psychology, sociology, math, science, biology, the one weird guy who wrote 20 books on trains because he has an extremely bizarre knowledge based on like three specific trains in general, probably a book about a plane as well, because why not. And a handful of other boring educational books, shit like cookbooks, machining, manufacturing, etc…

    I’m not sure how much “based on a true story” bleeds into non-fiction, but i’m basing on a strict separator so.

    To those raised on this content, what’s on social media is reality.

    and to be fair, that’s because it literally is, modern social life has moved to social media, people are lonelier than ever, there’s a reason for it.