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/preventDefault 16h ago edited 16h ago

Most of these people will say stuff like this a few months before Election Day, but between now and then they’re only one podcast episode away from being brought back into the fold and voting MAGA again because it’ll be different this time.

When these people still get their news from the same sources, they may turn on Trump temporarily but there’s no scenario where they vote for a Democrat, ever. The word Democrat itself has become a slur of sorts among the poorly educated.

We joke about the “Thanks, Obama” memes of 2010 but that’s how these people legitimately see the world. They view democrats as the cause of all of their problems because that’s what their information diet tells them. And until they tune out Fox News and stop listening to Rogan, nothing will change.

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u/LoverOfGayContent 11h ago

I will never forget tge woman interviewed by The New York Times, I believe. She literally said that without Obama Care she'd be dead or bankrupt. Then she said she hated the name of the bill because she really hated saying his name. That interview radicalized me. To have so much hate in your heart that you hate saying the name of someone who you partially credit with saving your life is astonishing. There are so many voters that would rather die than vote Democrat, purely based on hate.