Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election

Male Gen Z voters are breaking with Donald Trump and the Republican party at large, recent polls show, less than a year after this same cohort defied convention and made a surprise shift right, helping Trump win the 2024 election.

Taken with wider polling suggesting Democrats will lead in the midterms, the findings on young men spell serious trouble for the Republican Party in 2026.

Younger Gen Z men, those born between 2002 and 2007, may be even more anti-Trump, according to October research from YouGov and the Young Men’s Research Project, a potential sign that their time living through the social upheavals of the Covid pandemic and not being political aware during the first Trump administration may be shaping their experience.

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    4 hours ago

    It’s still crazy how many people want to write them off as lost causes already.

    Those little idiots are going to be voting for decades, it’s insane to stop trying to bring them around.

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      2 hours ago

      I genuinely can’t fathom how folks mad at gen Z voters don’t understand that their anger toward gen Z voters was equally manufactured as those gen Z voters support for Trump was.

      How fucking stupid.

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        7 minutes ago

        Meh.

        I 100% get being mad at really any random voting demographic.

        Like, pick a group. I got a bone to pick with them.

        My issue is people who fall for the oligarchs propaganda that want us to fight along their carefully manufactured battle lines instead uniting against the oligarchs like we need to.

        It’s why I’m such a broken record about wealth inequality. It’s the one thing that resonates with over 99% of Americans, it’s the obvious choice to use to unite the people against the oligarchs, and why they constantly have to manufacture other shit.

        We solve that, and no one’s pushing all the other shit as distractions, so it solves most of our issues at once.

        4 years under a progressive with support of the House and Senate and we wouldn’t even recognize America, and I mean that in a good way.