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.

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    5 days ago

    This kind of thinking - that your generation is somehow uniquely equipped like no other prior human beings before - is complete delusion

    to be completely devils advocate here, the human mind is not a static blob of inputs and outputs, it’s a variable soup of neurons with connections between different neurons as they try and establish patterns and reasons between things. People who have grown up today, compared to people who grew up 200 years ago, are quite literally fundamentally different. Every generation is raised differently to the previous, it’s why every generation behaves differently to the previous generations. It’s just that the difference is less significant than most would think.

    The entire reason why “post truth society” is even a thing now is because of this fundamental operation of human psychology, shit changes, and we change with the shit.