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.

I assume it had to do with the parents being supporters too.

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

Gen Z was around 12-27 years old during the election. I think part of it could honestly be due to brain development.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah. But they saved Gaza.

/s

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

Joe Rogan

Dumbasses needed to see him do it live rather than google the existing data on how disastrous his last term was. Last time he was in office, they were listening to Baby Shark. "It happened 5 years ago so that's ancient history. I've got better things to do, like doomscrolling Tiktok for 8 hours"

They all have that big energy to march and protest though. I don't get it.

Yeah but I don’t know how this happened in the first place, we’ve had decades of horse running screaming out of that barn, decades of smelling the smoke from that dumpster fire, my entire life of what a horrible person he is and why is he still in the news. Yeah, it’s decades late to close that barn door, decades late to suffocate that fire. Mango Mussolini is the very definition of failing his way upward. There was never a good reason for him to lead us out of a paper bag, and it kept getting worse

I can only assume that insipid tv show he paid for to rehabilitate his image actually worked. Do people actually believe reality tv? Did everyone forget the decades of evidence before then? Did you actually pay attention to the script?

Right? I see all of these "appeasement" style pieces trying to get us to feel some sort of vindication. It's all bullshit.

Those stats might affect the adoration of his groupies, and how many are re-elected.

Most horribly of all, we have Vance thinking he can step into the big orange footprints to be ordained next. We can’t have that weasel elected. It would be more of the same but more evil, less self-centered gibberish

Im gen z and I voted Harris. I also attended no kings Chicago. Not all of us are just sitting and watching this happen but enough are that it makes us look bad.

Man, the tiktok kids will do it, the weird Taylor swift fans band together are unstoppable. Turns out, it's all just internet bullshit. Who knew?