My feeling is the sharp swing towards Trump with young men has a lot to do with Trump personally. Think about it, the entire cohort of male voters 18-25 went from adolescence into adulthood with a juvenile braggard getting away with outrageous things and never being held accountable as a role model.
When Trump used the defense "locker room talk", those 2024 voters were 10-17. If we made a pie chart of which demographics routinely engage in such talk, boys 10-17 would be an enormous slice.
The good thing though is that he has seen a sharp fall in approval even among Gen Z men in all polls except that Yale one which was hyped up by the media. If this admin is a failure and the next democratic administration is a success, Gen Z as a whole can become as liberal as Gen X became conservative due to the Reagan era.
And that makes sense too, my theory includes the idea that this support is wide but shallow. Casting a vote for Trump in 2024 was the last act of adolescence for these young men who now actually have to live in the real world, I could see them shifting our way and the 18-25 cohort in 2028 will see Trump as a failed old man and probably not be as interested in whatever BS the Republicans put up next.
Thank you. There are some things I like a lot about this article. However, we have to keep in mind that reactionary viewpoints are much less attractive to members of groups that did terribly in the past, notably Black people. That doesn't always prevent Black men, for example, from being reactionaries, but there is definitely a clear element among the men discussed in that essay of wanting to restore dominance over society, and that's stated in the article even if in a soft way, while the advancement of women seems overstated, as their salaries have never achieved parity with men's, they are certainly not close to parity among CEOs or in bodies like the Senate, and of course have never won a presidential election (not counting one popular vote victory). And we could go on.
Why are men so much more right-wing than women now?
>Don’t blame Joe Rogan too much — one theory says that the roots of this gender gap go back decades.
https://www.vox.com/politics/410419/political-divide-men-women-economics-policy
https://archive.ph/zTBis
My feeling is the sharp swing towards Trump with young men has a lot to do with Trump personally. Think about it, the entire cohort of male voters 18-25 went from adolescence into adulthood with a juvenile braggard getting away with outrageous things and never being held accountable as a role model.
When Trump used the defense "locker room talk", those 2024 voters were 10-17. If we made a pie chart of which demographics routinely engage in such talk, boys 10-17 would be an enormous slice.
The good thing though is that he has seen a sharp fall in approval even among Gen Z men in all polls except that Yale one which was hyped up by the media. If this admin is a failure and the next democratic administration is a success, Gen Z as a whole can become as liberal as Gen X became conservative due to the Reagan era.
Millennials became conservative due to the Reagan era?
I made another silly mistake lol. I meant Gen X.
your are allowed an unlimited # of such errors
You can edit your otherwise excellent post.
And that makes sense too, my theory includes the idea that this support is wide but shallow. Casting a vote for Trump in 2024 was the last act of adolescence for these young men who now actually have to live in the real world, I could see them shifting our way and the 18-25 cohort in 2028 will see Trump as a failed old man and probably not be as interested in whatever BS the Republicans put up next.
agree, they will flee the repub party like rats on a sinking ship when the POTUS nominee is some white bread run-of-the-mill repub dude....like Vance
Special feature for Vox members only. Is the gist that men want to reestablish dominance in all areas of life?
I use Brave browser, can't subscribe to them all.
https://archive.ph/zTBis : here's an archive today link.
Thank you. There are some things I like a lot about this article. However, we have to keep in mind that reactionary viewpoints are much less attractive to members of groups that did terribly in the past, notably Black people. That doesn't always prevent Black men, for example, from being reactionaries, but there is definitely a clear element among the men discussed in that essay of wanting to restore dominance over society, and that's stated in the article even if in a soft way, while the advancement of women seems overstated, as their salaries have never achieved parity with men's, they are certainly not close to parity among CEOs or in bodies like the Senate, and of course have never won a presidential election (not counting one popular vote victory). And we could go on.