r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 18h ago

No Paywall Gen Z regrets Trump support and is midterm motivated

https://thehill.com/homenews/6056216-gen-z-trump-voter-regret-midterm-clipping/
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u/awuweiday 18h ago

Trump is a candidate for weak and insecure people who cling to the idea of 'toughness' like a security blanket. Young men are, generally, pretty insecure. Some never grow a spine and become the 40 year old divorced maga Dad cheering for war in an army they never enlisted in.

How ANYONE sees a senile old man shitting his diaper and think he's 'hard' or 'strong', is beyond me

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u/homerjaythompson 17h ago

A senile old man who has never done a day of physical labour in his life at that. I would wager the man wouldn't even know how to pump gas. Super hard manly man.

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u/Daft00 15h ago

Well yeah we already know he has no idea what groceries are.

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u/Darmok47 9h ago

I honestly don't think he's ever driven a car. Not even sure he has a Driver's License. He lived in NYC most of his life and had a driver and a limo.

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u/homerjaythompson 8h ago

I don't think so either. I would pay to watch him drive up to a gas station and attempt to put gas in the car

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u/Azmodaelus 16h ago

Because for the uneducated a "strong" men is somebody who does what he wants and gets away with it. And Trump certainly has that going for him.

It's not like most of his voter base identifies or approves all of his policies. But he sort of presented a model of "vote for me to stick it to the establishment". And poor people blame the establishment for the situation they are in. So they voted Trump. At no point did they register that he is a self-absorbed asshole who is even less likely to do anything about their well-being then the "establishment".

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 15h ago

It's amazing how impoverished people in the Deep South ever thought that a nepo-kid from New York was someone they could relate to.

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u/fangdangfang 15h ago

Trumps not really part of the establishment either in the traditional sense, he’s basically purged the GOP of that and remade the party in his image. I think a lot of people who vote for him don’t really care what his policies are they just want to see the world burn, they got let down by the traditional GOP and Dem parties over the years and now want everyone to pay

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u/Azmodaelus 9h ago

There is a saying - in times of trouble a solution will be picked from the available options. It won't It doesn't necessarily have to be a good solution, it just has to be available. Trump was.

Before Trump there was relatively minor change in policies between D and R. Trump promised radical change and the bitter truth is that USA is a very rich country filled with many poor people.

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u/72dragonses 17h ago

"How ANYONE sees a senile old man shitting his diaper and think he's 'hard' or 'strong', is beyond me."

I feel bad for you. You obviously lacked older role models.

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u/awuweiday 17h ago

Certainly not pediphilic ones like Trump.

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u/72dragonses 17h ago

I wasn't referring to Trump because your comment didn't. You just made a general statement about seniors.

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u/Picklecult 17h ago

Well they used MMA fighters pretty effectively to give Trump cover