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.
I hate articles like this. He won, he is in power. He will be in power for 4 years. His popularity doesn’t matter anymore.
If he were a normal president who cared about Congress and the future of his party in fair and free elections this would matter a lot. Unfortunately he isn’t and his plan is to make certain there aren’t any free and fair elections, so we’ll see what happens.
Need to rejoin England, go back to a proper parliamentary system. Everybody who saw the American Constitutional, from it’s first publication, said "this will end up as a dictatorship, as the role of president has too much power’'. Finally that scenario has played out.
It’s not great in the UK either mind, for fucks sake don’t copy us!
It doesn’t have to be great.
It just has to be better.
He’ll be in power for only the next 23 months if we can get a supermajority of sane, congresspeople with backbones elected in 2026. So yeah, he’ll be in power for 4+ years.
Does if you want a revolution.
I envy the optimism.
The popularity of the President has a great effect on what happens in the midterm elections.
Ofc that’s dependant on us having a free and fair midterm election by then
He will be in power for 4 years
minimum
Not necessarily. His lifestyle is atrocious
But his medical care is the best in the country.
That can only do so much, though.
Democracy happens whether governments want it to or not.
Elections are just a form of democracy where all parties involved agree that its going to happen.
Either way, the will of the people will ultimately decide the direction of every nation, regardless of what kind of government they have.
Too bad they voted for him before realizing they made a stupid choice. Now I hope Gen X figures that out.
Leopard… Face… etc.
FAFO…
But credit, at least, for waking up, realizing, and responding. 👏
Responding? How, where?
We thought GenZ was going to save us, but that was bullshit.
I work with a few in a DEEP BLUE state in a field in which the majority of my co-workers have been liberal and they’re Trumpers. Morons who grew up on social media and had their minds warped by it. Fell for the alpha male bullshit too.
They aren’t going to save us. They’re pretty dumb.
Surprise the iPad kid generation that were brought up on 4chsn derived troll culture are not bastions of virtue.
Like I have a zoomer nephew, and he’s genuinely a good kid at heart, and his mum raised him well, but he also showed me things like videos of people harassing kids in video games until they meltdown like it was the funniest shit in the world, and also thinks Trump is super funny.
Being a shitty person is just good “content”.
Sitting around and waiting for someone else to save you is defeatist. There’s no magic fix to this. You have to get up and do it yourself.
I’ll do what I can but I can’t stop the zoomers from listening to Rogan any more than I could stop the boomers from listening to Limbaugh.
Well yeah, the memes have stopped.
Glad it is crumbling.
While an overload of mindless far-right, conservative, bigoted, and transphobic videos on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, and similar posts on Facebook and Twitter, undoubtedly played a large part in indoctrinating so many people (as has been the case in countries such as Hungary and Turkey), it’s still crazy that so many people were suckered in by Trump’s lies about reducing inflation, when his first term in office proved how shitty he was, as well as the reason why Roe vs. Wade was overturned. It shouldn’t have taken countless constitutional violations in only the first month of a second term as president for people to realize that.
If corporate oligarchs haven’t fully dismantled what remains of the country’s severely flawed democracy in four years’ time, then there’s every chance that they’ll buy the presidency again in 2028, apathetic to the rise of fascism and the dismantlement of civil rights.
Why would they have to buy it again? They already own it.
I agree it is disappointing, but not enough people remember what it was like to be a confused and arrogant teenager. Let alone in the modern era where all their media comes from platforms funded by billionaires 24/7, politics hasn’t had a shred of decorum in their conscious lifetimes, and the planet is undergoing multiple unprecedented crises.
Good news, having such an eye-awakening experience at an impressionable age can drive people left-wing for their lifetime. Same has happened during Trump-1, Bush-2 and Bush-3, (now in Canadian politics) the Walkerton Crisis, the Mulroney days, and now hopefully with Doug Ford.
Bad news: They already got played, and they might get played again in 4 years with billions of big tech money intended to distract the masses.
We’ll probably find out in 2 years when seats of Congress are up for election again.
You still think there are going to be free and open elections?
I’ll echo the other reply - red states will not have them, blue and some purple states will. I suspect we will continue to have the facade of democracy for a while, and may see the Democrats take the House and maybe the Senate in 2026.
The real question is, if there are elections in 2028, and the Republicans lose, will there be a transfer of power? I don’t have a good feeling about the answer, but only time will tell. Four years is a long time for an obese old man with a very stressful job to live, and I don’t think there is anyone who can easily take over Trump’s cult of personality and take the reins of the fascist movement.
I hope so. Also, I feel like saying things like this only make more people fall into the defeatist attitude which tends lead to lower voter turn out. I get where you’re coming from, but we have to at least try.
Yes, in blue states. State governments are responsible for elections, not Federal. I expect plenty of fraud and worse-than-usual voter suppression in Republican-governed states, though.
If that were true, trump wouldn’t have won his first term or his second.
Republicans can rest easy, they will forget by 2028, 2030 at the latest.
We’re going to be damned lucky if we get the chance for people to be played again.
Question of when, not if. Fascism isn’t sustainable, it will fail eventually (but gods is depressing to think of it getting real bad)
It won’t be luck that will save your democracy, it will be determination.
It will happen, might take a generation or three.
This is all so depressing… Its like there needs to be a massive war every so many years so people remember why it’s important to have a democracy and be kind to one another.
There’s a Bush-3? In Canada? Sounds like the sequel to a really bad movie nobody liked and everyone is wondering why it even got made.
If we’re counting election cycles there were 4 bushes. none in canada afaik though
I count Bush-1 as 1989, Bush-2 as 2001 and Bush-3 as 2005.
Harper and Mike Harris for me.
I don’t trust polls anymore. Trump wasn’t supposed to win '16 and it wasn’t supposed to be a blowout '24 according to polls.
What sucks is he only won the popular vote by about 2 million votes. A lot of these states misrepresent their population with the electoral college and gerrymandering.
It’s almost like a ton of zoomers weren’t paying attention to what the fuck he was doing last time around.
In it for the jokes.
It’s not just the zoomers
I was 16 at the start of the last time, so yeah quite a few of the middle and younger zoomers may legit not remember or were too young to understand.
If you think about it, a TON of zoomers were maybe 10 years old when he started his shit.
It’s literally all they have known for most of their formidable years. I blame their parents more then them. They never talked to their kids about what he’s doing apparently.
I tell my two kids that what he is doing is evil, and anyone who follows him is broken in some form or another. I tell them ALL the stuff our country has done, good and bad, and to keep learning, keep questioning, and most of all: beware of people like him. They are world enders.
He’s the funny guy from all their memes. They love those memes!
A lot of people were the same age when GWB was signing the Patriot Act and didn’t realize the consequences of his presidency until much later. Young people are impressionable but they do change.
Problem is there are too many old people misguiding young people, the capacity for change doesn’t matter if the same mistakes will be repeated by the next generation.
They were kids. Their parents blamed Biden for the lockdown. They hated the lockdown.
But, many people are easily swayed by emotions. That’s why that whole “genocide Joe” influence worked so well.
Very few people can see the forest through the trees.
