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.
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’re going to be damned lucky if we get the chance for people to be played again.
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.
Question of when, not if. Fascism isn’t sustainable, it will fail eventually (but gods is depressing to think of it getting real bad)
There’s a famous quote about investing by Garry Shilling: “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” Sure, you can say “this is definitely a bubble” and “it will eventually revert to the mean,” but fat lot of good that does you if you’ve already been screwed by the time it happens.
Similarly, it’s easy to say that dictatorships are doomed to failure “eventually,” but that “eventually” can easily be beyond your lifetime. Just look at North Korea, for instance.
It won’t be luck that will save your democracy, it will be determination.
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?
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.
The Federal Election Commission has determined that your state had a fraudulent election. Please remain calm while our jackboots personally conduct a recount…
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.
Theres 3 seats up for special elections here soon because of appointments for the house I believe
Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about that. Thanks for reminding me!
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.
Harper and Mike Harris for me.
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.
I count Bush-1 as 1989, Bush-2 as 2001 and Bush-3 as 2005.
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”.
Seeing this with my own kids. We strictly manage their YouTube time, and that’s fucking hard because there’s million stupid ways to sneak on to YouTube. I wish there was a way to set them up with an allowlist feed instead of having to go and block every single bullshit video and channel, but then they couldn’t feed my kids to the algorithm to make it shit out money, I guess.
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.
Yeah. I’ve got a high school teacher in my life, they told me recently that many of their Seniors can’t do what Freshmen could just ten years ago, and they have a shocking amount of Seniors who can’t even read at a second grade level (they teach general ed, not special ed). I mean, not five or twelve of them, but like 30 or 40 percent. They say the kids struggle super hard these days (again, relative to Freshmen a decade ago) to analyze text and form original thoughts, and it’s almost like they’ve all been trained to just be told what to think. In a way, I guess that’s true, thanks to the Algorithm. I think we’re seeing the fruit of that; the algorithm has told these boys what to think, and now they get to find out for themselves what the consequences of that is.
It’s almost like a ton of zoomers weren’t paying attention to what the fuck he was doing last time around.
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 formative 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.
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.
In it for the jokes.
I mean who knew he would be against DEI and immigrants?
I think these polls are bullshit. The same gen Z kids who voted Trump after being brainwashed for years watching Rogan, Shapiro, etc rail on DEI, trans, ‘wokeism’ and ‘open borders’ haven’t suddenly changed their opinion once Trump’s started enacting policies that aim to enact those goals.
These kids just recognize how unpopular these actions are in the wider community and are lying to pollsters now. It’s virtue signalling. They’ll continue to vote right-wing imho
It could be as simple as losing access to grants, scholarships, and general funding. Add to that any of them hoping for a government job doing something they’re passionate about (wildlife/park/environmental sciences) only to have their future prospects crushed by an ignorant foreigner.
You might be right, but my question here is: Has it really had time to sink in yet? They got their student aid in January when Biden was still in office. Some of them may have lost jobs, but for the most part, there hasn’t been enough time yet for the leopards to come around for their faces. And Newsweek HAS posted overly optimistic articles saying the Dems have this in the bag. Granted, we won’t know the actual outcome until 2 years from now, but I am thinking the shitheads will just blame Dems, DEI, or whatever other BS to avoid realising that it’s their own leopard eating their face.
Could be.
You mean that?
Well these days I’m starting to think I have to put
/s
behind every statement since I’m hearing so many people say things so friggin bizarre I never suspected I would ever hear such a thing and expect they were actually serious.
Well if this election has taught us anything…
that’s just a weirdo who replies with “you mean that” to every comment they see that starts with “I mean”
Ah, I see. Thanks. As annoying as that is, I probably WILL try not to do that so often.
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.
Gerrymandering doesn’t affect statewide elections.
Gerrymandering would only change a state’s electoral college votes meaningfully in one or two states.
It’s more often an issue of:
- Citizen becomes voter via “motor-votor” registration.
- Later, state sends postcard asking to confirm voter’s address.
- Voter sees postcard, looks like junkmail or fraudulent mail, discards without response.
- State, not checking anything else, drops voter from roll.
Cannot wait for the types of gen z voters that voted for a dipshit like donvict to turn around and blame “boomers” for their issues.
They kinda already are. Though they seem to be blaming the Democrats for not doing enough to convince them to not be stupid.
Being raised by social media has caused some issues with them. They seem to value the ability to say whatever you need to say to get to the top of the algorithm and aren’t able to question the algorithm itself.
The zoomers are just like the boomers. They will blame anyone but themselves for their problems.
Millennials voted for trump and Republicans more than zoomers. There is plenty of blame to go around.
We are not talking about millennials in this thread. Just the zoomers.
Only us millennials are victims. /s
Everyone is a victim even the zoomers. Many just lack the critical thinking skills to realize it.
It’s okay they don’t bother coming out of their sofas to vote
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.
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’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.
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.
That’s odd because the only Gen z people who liked Trump were the paid Russian propogandists that were creating all the fake bullshit memes for him
Don’t underestimate right wing populism
One would think watching Nazi salutes on inauguration day of a GOP president going blitzkrieg all around the world, would be enough to forget about them reaching the White House again… but, seriously, this is the USA.
You assume they read about history and know what Nazis were beyond tiktok memes.
Looks like they missed that year in school.
Well yeah, the memes have stopped.
Glad we chose a candidate on important metrics. Such as how lit their meme game is …
Either all of the polling sites are lying or that impotent clown still has a 47% approval rating. Why? I have no idea.
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?
“popularity plunges”… That’s a response… 🤷♂️
Glad it is crumbling.
Either USSA 18-29-years-old are weird, or newsweek is corporate shill. Mix in one bag
mass deportation plan, targeting of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and suggesting that the U.S. will “take over” the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians from the area while it is rebuilt.
and ignore everything else.
Well, thank Faust, I am not in Memericas.
