Donald Trump is facing a sharp backlash from young voters, with new polling showing his approval rating among Generation Z has dropped to one of its lowest points yet.
The latest YouGov/Yahoo poll, conducted between June 26-30 among 1,597 adults, shows that among Gen Z voters, his net rating has deteriorated sharply, falling from -23 points in May to -41 points in June.
Net ratings do have a tendency to swing much more than a simple approval rating. Still, the president’s approval rating in June is low, at 27 percent. The margin of error is at plus or minus 3.2 percent.
Lucas Walsh, a youth political behavior expert and professor at Monash University, told Newsweek that Trump’s falling support among Gen Z voters may reflect how young people “respond to issues rather than party allegiances.”
The fact that he ever had an approval rating with Gen Z is mind-boggling.
I assume it had to do with the parents being supporters too.
Also the incel shits like that tate fucker being targeted towards young men.
That movement has done so much damage, there isn’t a hole deep enough to throw manosphere influencers into
I would say the Mariana Trench, but I don’t want to pollute the oceans.
Well the oceans already pretty bad. How bout we chopper them out to the plastic island and they can live on its surface, choking on old coke bottles for sustainance?
Combine them with fracking, use them as “tampons” to plug the wells, sop up the pollution
What’s wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?
Oh god we’re calling it the manosphere? 😒
That’s been around a while, sadly.
I am however up for calling a midlife crisis The Manopause.
Sounds like a globe made of hands
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Nah, right wingers have been actively targeting young people for decades, and still do now. They’re literally playing Roblox with your children.
Want to know why there were so many conservative Gen Zs? Gamergate.
We can’t pretend this is just passive, from the parent kind of stuff. The right has and continues to actively target children in their spaces in ways that us on the left just have too much integrity to. I’m not saying we should start counter-indoctrinating children, but we need to be realistic and honest with ourselves about the situation.
What the fuck is wrong with kids listening to their shitty parents?
/I know a lot of people get raised wrong in households that teach them wrong things and it takes a lot of effort to get better, but… it’s pretty astounding to me to imagine someone listening to their parents tell them that Donald fucking Trump is a Cool Guy.
I bought into my dad’s Fox News talking points at like 15, but I grew out of it. The idea that a grown adult is still parroting their parent’s political views is so weird to me.
Kids have little in the way of influence outside of their parents up until they’re in their teens, and they take stuff at face value without questioning it too much.
On the one hand, this is great because a kid can ask a question, get an honest answer, and accept it as fact. This is why every generation seems more socially progressive than the last. You tell a kid that men can love other men, women can love other women, and that sometimes people are born in the wrong body, and they go “Oh, okay. That makes sense.” And now that’s part of their understanding of how the world works.
On the other hand, if a kid is surrounded by their MAGA parents and their parents’ MAGA ride or die friends, they’ll grow up thinking that Trump is right and everybody else is bad. Conservative households especially foster a cult-like mentality it seems, where questioning the beliefs hoisted upon them by their parents is out of the question, and I feel that that has something to do with the conservative mentality. They always accuse progressives of brainwashing and indoctrinating the youth because that’s their relationship with their own kids. My dad grew up in a very conservative household and it wasn’t until he went to college and both got away from his parents as well as met people who grew up in different circumstances than he did that his beliefs completely 180’d.
I think people forget that the 19 year olds voting for him were 10 when the “Grab ‘em by the pussy” shit happened. Not that it’s an excuse to not pay attention but a lot of the people who voted for him didn’t have the benefit of hindsight and spent the entire pandemic alone in their rooms listening to Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.
Yeah, and it also feels “forever ago” when you’re that age. Literally half their lives. So I could understand them thinking it’s “old news”, but when you’re an old and crusty 40 year old, you know that a 60 someone saying heinous shit means that person is deeply twisted.
Hell I’m 25 and 2016 feels like a lifetime ago.
I’m 26 but I don’t feel this way at all. 2006 feels more like a lifetime away for me personally. I could go back to 2016 like it was yesterday.
Such things vary by individual as well, I was basically in a weird sleep deprived fugue state through most of highschool at least during the day.
I get it dude. I felt that way for the last 2 years in college because of the Pandemic. I barely remember that time.
I was just at lunch, the table next door had a bunch of Trump gear on, even the teenagers. I overheard bits of conversation and it was totally normal stuff, which makes me wonder what attracts people to such a gross person
If you’re just watching the evening news and not looking into things further, Trump is not painted in such as light as we see in say articles linked here on Lemmy. Abrego Garcia? Well that was just one mistake. Mistakes happen right? I’m sure they’ll fix it. Then you move on with the rest of your life without giving it more thought. I think that is how seemingly “normal” people buy into this.
Media sanewashing honestly.
They treat a complete fascist as if he’s a normal politician of a normal party.
That’s how.
Last night I had a three hour call with my conservative brother where he explained an entirely different world than what I live in. Many of their choices are not as horrible if you accept their alternate facts. That’s the real problem, alternate reality.
Although here’s a wholesome tale for the Lemmings …… he was complaining about the parents and grandparents, the boomers in my family, believing in all this “woke nonsense”. I don’t know how he thinks I’d sympathize with his reality
There’s also a degree to which conservative media and conservative culture teach their people to act like they are more inline with the mainstream. There’s old stuff that’s been going on forever like using coded language so they talk about an “urban problem” instead of openly saying that black people are the problem or they’ll talk about “New York people” instead of openly saying that Jewish people are the problem. If you haven’t been exposed to that then some of what they’re saying can sound somewhat reasonable.
Then there is the “respect” thing. Conservative parents are big about emphasizing how you say something over what you say. So they’re fine with saying that disabled people should just die as long as it’s not phrased that way. It should sound more like “It’s sad that some people are sick but there are only so many resources and we need to put them where they’re most productive. Hopefully their family can take care of them.” It’s more etiquette than real respect but they make a big deal out of it.
Gen Z was around 12-27 years old during the election. I think part of it could honestly be due to brain development.
Also the youth vote usually doesn’t support the incumbent as kids kinda like to rebel.
Supporting the conservative party which seeks to undo progress and maintain the status quo as a form of “rebellion” is so goddamn typical of idiot kids. The elderly and young people agree on one general stance: “idk wtf you’re talking about and I absolutely don’t like it or want it.”
The shrink of our memories and attention spans will have been our undoing. It’s probably already over, and it’ll be another 50 years or so before people realize it. Idk if we can ever recover from all of this, so I’m just gonna drink and play video games between chores today instead of watching for current events.
It’s important to take breaks from the doom and gloom. We can take a day off from rearranging deck chairs once in a while. We owe it to ourselves.
They’re not doing it to be contrarian. They’re doing it because the Republican party has spent more time than they’ve been alive establishing themselves as the anti-establishment party as well as the victims, and the good ol’ fascist play of giving young men disillusioned with the bad things in their lives an easy target to blame rather than blaming the people who are actually at fault - the Republicans.
There are 40±year-olds who were surprised when Rage Against the Machine didn’t support Trump. What machine did they think they were raging against? The Democrats of course, well known for being the party of the establishment and the status quo. Not like those scrappy Republicans, looking out for the common man while the Dems look down from their big-city ivory towers with disdain.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.“ It also revolves around this aspect too.
When you’re young you want to rebel against the establishment. They are being told the establishment wants rights for women and gays and men’s rights are being taken away. So they are going the opposite direction to be contrarian. Unfortunately young men at that age have very little empathy for anyone else. They have to know what’s in it for them.
Gen Z was explicitly not taught how to read properly. It’s very difficult to not be conspiracist and think it was on purpose. Phonics was thrown out entirely for years. Teachers spoke up about it not working, and were forced to work the programs anyway.
He got a lot of gen z votes! Shit is Fucked up.
They get their news from social media and watch ufc
Didn’t his son turn him on to TikTok, where I assume he got a bunch of Gen Z voters? I assume all these q-tips in Florida aren’t on there.
The memes were legit funny.
You have to realize the joke is your country for the memes to be less funny.
The polling numbers after the election were horrifying. GenZ are like the Hitler Youth of today. Not just voting Trump because their parents were Republicans and influenced their political outlook, but enthusiastically embracing Trump because of memes and TikTok, not actually considering the consequences carefully.
It’s shameful, because even though most GenZ kids were not old enough to vote, they were almost old enough to vote back in 2016 when Trump took office the first time. It’s not like they are looking back at the early years of politics from their childhood fondly, they were definitely old enough to be able to see how destructive he was.
This is why they set up the bill to kick in after the midterms.
Yep it’ll all be the Dems fault. Everyone will have forgotten about this bill and right wing media will push the lie. Easy money they say.
What’s worse is dems might win and those same dumbasses that voted for them will question why they didn’t unfuck decades of this shit in a single term and then sit on their lazy asses the election after.
And thus the cycle will repeat.
And even worse yet it’ll be by the razor-thin 50:50 majority we always give them and they will STILL take the full blame in an endless cycle of self destruction.
“WhY DIdn’T YoU AMMeNd ThE COnstiTUTIon DeMS?! Wy nO ImpeAcH anD ReMoVe?!”
Yeah. They expect to lose the midterms. Let the bill kick in, and then blame the Democrats for it. ‘How could they let this happen?! Vote for us in 2028 to get your healthcare back’ or something like that.
Dumb voters won’t have educationized themselves by then. I hear it involves a lot of reading.
Repeat after me: He doesn’t fucking care.
too late for post-nut clarity, kids. he’s not just a person he’s a cultural moment y’all embraced and is going to take a lot more of a “well maybe he’s not that great for the economy” to unfuck ourselves from. how about some introspection about why we’re attracted to narcissists or so deeply spiritually moved by shitty tough-man antics? where’s that political analysis?
Yeah. But they saved Gaza.
/s
What amazes me is that there are still people who look at what Donald Trump has done in his life, what he has said and done to become president (twice!) and what he’s done since taking office. They look at all this, take a big huff of their own farts and say “I approve of this”
I can’t imagine that it takes anything less than a very special kind of cognitive disability to be intelligent enough to use twitter, but dumb enough to support this petulant, stroppy, bafflingly stupid man-toddler.
There has been a concerted effort for the last 15 to 20 years by the alt-right to court young disillusioned men and women using divisiveness and the slowly declining status quo as a lever.
Doesn’t matter that the insanely wealthy right wing is primarily responsible for pushing the deterioration, it only matters that the insanely wealthy liberals in the government haven’t done anything substantive to stop it.
For reference, see Nancy Pelosi’s fucking dedicated ice cream fridge she showed off in an interview to seem relatable.
You would t believe the false propagandized worlds these people live in. I have a close friend that turned his head towards this stuff over the years I’ve been trying my best pull back. But I mean it’s 100% like science fiction. They can say gravity isn’t real and these people would believe it. It’s very sad. It’s usually rooted in fear tactics and it overrides any logic. Lots of doubles speak too. Many really believe trump just wants to get rid of criminals. That’s the party line, but it’s double speak for migrants
His polling numbers dont matter. Either he cannot run for president again or he fucks up the government bad enough to allow him to, in which case the vote is going to be rigged AF anyway.
If he hasn’t had a heart from all the hamberders by the next election cycle I guarantee he will run for president again and it’ll be up to congress and or the supreme court to stop him. Depending on the make up of those to entities I think there’s a chance they would stop him.
Rules for thee but not for me and all that.
Too fucking late man. Dudes already in office wrecking the country…
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The people who support Trump en masse are not really represented here. His dedicated base absolutely love everything he is doing. Especially the immigrant Holocaust he has started.
He could be the most hated man in history and it don’t mean shit if you don’t get off your ass and vote.
They all have that big energy to march and protest though. I don’t get it.
They hate the “system”. The system includes our democracy and going out to vote. They don’t believe their votes matter so they don’t vote, things don’t go their way and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
They believe in burning stuff down. Not voting. But even the agitprop kids are a small minority. They’re just really loud and destructive.
Just wait about 20 minutes, Newsweek will have a headline about fascism and GenZ. I loath that clickbait factory.
It doesn’t matter.
Way too fucking late…
IF it’s from Newsweek, it’s just a shitty clickbait title with nothing of actual substance in the actual article. Lemmy users need to stop posting Newsweek links, it is not a good source to trust.
If the US still had free and fair elections, they’d be worried
How it got to any measurable levels in the first place is the real mystery.
Joe Rogan
This will have no effect on what happens to us going forward.
