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Any reason for this? Higher education? Developing brain? I mean, whatever the reason, it's good. I'm just curious as to why.
Half of Gen Z doesn't remember a time when Trumpism wasn't normal. They don't know how the economy should be, how diplomacy should be, anything. They just heard Trump saying Biden was a pussy, and Biden acted like a pussy, so they believe Trump was the only reliable narrator. It took these people a great deal to overcome it - I heard a lot of younger people saying Trump was the peaceful, anti-war President. Now that they realize that was a lie, other dominoes are falling.
This is such a big factor, imo.
The democrats refuse to budge from this neocon position of "benevolent interventionism." and Trump has been able to attack them over both parts of it, which allows him to appeal both to libertarian types who want to stay out of conflicts because "the government doing stuff is bad," and to nationalist types who want to just overtly plunder everywhere (with his actual policy being the latter). Meanwhile the democrats just cast anyone who disagrees with them on foreign policy as a Russian bot. They're stuck in the early 2000's where there was overwhelming bipartisan support for "bringing democracy" to the Middle East, and they seem think if they can just pick up the "moderate Republican" neocon voters who definitely exist and still believe in that project, then they're sure to win.
The effect is that they fail to capitalize on the ideological divisions that exist on the right. The actual Republican voters that there would be a chance of peeling off are the libertarian anti-war types, but that would require actually trying to appeal to anti-war voters instead of treating them with contempt.
I don't fully agree. There's plenty of people on the Near Right that are primed for switching to Democrat as both parties marched to the Right. Some already have. The ones who haven't are either held back by social pressure or Democrats position on Guns.
Clinton and Kamala both tried to appeal to that "near right" and failed. Social pressure isn't going to magically disappear, I can agree with the point about guns but that just ties into what I'm saying. If anyone on the right can be appealed to, it's the isolationist, pro-gun libertarian types. You will never win the nationalists, they already have a party that is giving them exactly what they want.
This is the thing I fear with autocratic/fascists in this country. If your normalize it to the following generations they'll accept it. Why it's important to at least be loudly against it even if it's online. Don't let them ever control the narrative exclusively.
Shifting narrative, it's part of the perpetual political swing.
Shit is always going to suck, and people have attention spans that last maybe 3 years at the most. Shit is sucking right now, and people are associating that suckiness with the people and faces who appear on their TV.
For further evidence of this very dumb, simple phenomenon, look at 2024 exit polling in the presidential election. Overwhelming results said that average Americans saw eggs and other basic necessity prices skyrocketing and connected that to Biden being in power, so the reaction is to over-correct and pick someone as far from Biden as possible. People weren't thinking about policy, people don't watch news or listen to debates. People get their information from 30 minutes of Facebook memes every sunday night while getting ready for bed.
Yup. People aren't responsibly informed and I don't see this changing without a major push to revamp our educational system to include courses in critical thinking and how to deal with misinformation. And I don't see that happening. So I think we're pretty well fucked.
Charlie Kirk was a big gathering point for that age. Without him, they are rudderless, until somebody steps up to replace him, which will take time.
Until then, it's a perfect opportunity for Dems to employ their own propaganda, and steer these people in a better direction. Give them a strong warrior leader they can believe in, who isn't an obvious phony like Newsome, and they'll switch their allegiance. But the window of opportunity is short, and now that they see the momentum shifting their way, the Dems have to move fast to recapture them for the Midterms.
It's very possible to flip these voters, which could be most helpful in flipping barely red districts, but I also have great confidence in the Dems screwing up this golden opportunity.