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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.
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.