Young male voters are flocking to Trump – but he doesn’t have their interests at heart

The US will get the leader they deserve.

Too bad the rest of the world will feel the consequences as well while they have no say in the matter.

Trump did very little for anyone. Unless you’re rich.

Every gen Z kid I know is having an issue trying to pick a pro-Palestine candidate. They seem to dislike Biden more than Harris, but I have never heard of trump support. I'm sure some amount of gen Z are trumpers but they are a minority, saying young male voters are "flocking" to trump is pretty silly. "There are literally dozens of us!"

I don't think Trump has the interest of literally any of his voters at heart. He's only interested in helping himself and he legally can't even vote for himself.

Edit: TIL Trump can still vote.

Florida (Trump's home state) Law:

a felony conviction in another state makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida only if the conviction would make the person ineligible to vote in the state where the person was convicted.

New York (State of felony convictions) Law:

a person convicted of a felony is disenfranchised only while incarcerated for that felony.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/can-trump-vote-now-he-has-felony-convictions

Yeah people are too uneducated to vote what is actually good for them, but that is unfortunately by design nowadays.

The article completely missed the core reason for young men to vote for Trump. It's ending DEI initiatives.

That's a single issue for some of my conservative friends. The D's will never get their vote.

My take is that they vote for him because he is angry. These young men are largely angry and have had media of all sorts telling them that they should be. They don't want someone telling them how they will boost the middle class and have equitable tax. They want someone who says they will burn every problem to the ground and break things. They want someone screaming at someone to blame.

Why we have a huge chunk of young men desperatly angry is a choose your own adventure of societal issues where we have provided almost no healthy outlet for healthy aggression or the physicality that comes with being a young man. Everyone is free to come up with their own reasons, but for me it is the lack of outlet or the feeling of societial participation for young men.

Whatever the reason, a culture who sweeps the problems of frustrated young men under the rug for long enough I feel will live to regret it.

Right-wing incels, hot off their carnivore diet, roids, and worship of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson wondering why women flee from them and yet continue to double-down on the likes of worshiping shitheads like Trump and Andrew Tate.

It's the exploitation of the ignorant and vulnerable; naturally, right-wing puppeteers are telling them it's everyone else who is the problem.

I think a lot of it is because there's so many more well-funded right-wing influencers/grifters than genuine liberal or left-wing influencers. It's much more profitable to take advantage of young men's anxieties and insecurities (to sell fungus pills, get-rich-quick plans, or whatever), than to genuinely discuss things from a liberal or especially left-wing perspective.

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He isn't even masculine. Like not even close.

Is their interest racism? Because he's got that covered.

This seems like the education gap rather than a gender gap. Women have been going to college in greater numbers for a couple of decades.

He does have an interest in young girls at heart though... Just like his good friend Jeff Epstein, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

He's masculine?

Scared little boys need a daddy

This all comes back to supporting young men and men in finding positive social groups and support systems that don't have extreme ideology attached. In the absence of a general, common avenue to community for men, it seems like these edge groups will continue to leverage that component to lure them in.

Literally Steve Bannons plan.

Get "rootless" white men (he aimed for gamers) angry and get them "on your side."

I blame Bannon and Reich wing media for this bullshit now where ANY NEW GAME is guaranteed to have a "WoKe GaMe?" post in the steam discussions.

They can't even think for themselves... They need to be told it's woke so they know to be mad at it...

He shares a lot of their same values, such as misogyny and racism.

But he has their prejudices, incel misogyny, and hatreds on public display. That’s good enough for many.

Also, there are far too many that see the world burning as some kind of entertainment. I hate to be the old guy yelling at people on the lawn, but I don’t know if the popular social media theme of destroying or damaging things, or doing mean shit to people for lols, is a symptom or a display that encourages or makes that behavior ok. There’s no consequences for that behavior, it’s entertainment, and some of that same attitude seems to bleed over into real-life actions.

I have definitely worked with people who voted for trump for no other reason than lols and to stir shit up.

WHAT

something with the education and upbringing must be f up, if young men are impressed by him

is this based on facts? the last thing i saw of him was a train wreck, he can't pull of a 2 !!!!!!!! minute interview

Feminism has done a great job of bringing woman and girl issues of importance into the public dialogue.

Men and boys have definitely been left in the dust.

Until we have a movement that represents men’s issues similar to feminism, this trend of men falling off the deep end will continue.

It can be argued that feminism is part of the problem, and has exacerbated many of the problems facing young men today. This is the entrance to the rabbit hole, and again, until we have a movement that represents men and boys similar to a feminism that just means equality and or equity, this trend will continue.

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Not like the DNC is pro masculinity. Trump's only positive is that he's not outright hostile.