Gen Z has buyers remorse on Trump

[surfered]

Published by digby on July 22, 2025
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Graph: Views of Trump by age group

Article:
“I won’t pretend to understand why they were as enthusiastic about Trump as they were in the first place. I suppose it’s possible that Trump just seemed normal to a lot of young people because he’d been president before and they had the sense that he did a good job. The “bro” factor played into it too, I think.

But they can all see him in action now and it’s obvious that he’s a miserable failure and an addled criminal.

*I should add that many Gen Xers have some splainin’ to do too. They should have known better.”

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. CBS NEWS POLL: Trump's approval trends among ages 18-29-Net 54 point negative swing

Link to tweet

CBS NEWS POLL: Trump's approval trends among ages 18-29

Early February
🟢 Approve: 55% (+10)
🟤 Disapprove: 45%

JULY
🟢 Approve: 28% (-44)
🟤 Disapprove: 72%

Net 54 point negative swing

[JenniferJuniper]

3. "Rarely is it asked, 'Is our children learning?'"

[ananda]

9. LOL

Obviously not much at all.

"Education aint what it used to be...
but then, it never was."

Will Rogers

[MLAA]

2. Muskrat brought a lot of young men to the party. Hopefully they all leave with him.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Actually, Trump improved slightly more with young women than with young men, in 2024

https://cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-differences-2024-presidential-vote

Democratic vote with 18-29 women: 2016 63%, 2020 67%, 2024 61%
(so 6% down from 2020 to 2024, and 2% down from 2016 to 2024)

Democratic vote with 18-29 men: 2016 47%, 2020 52%, 2024 48%)
(so 4% down from 2020 to 2024, and 1% up from 2016 to 2024)

[MLAA]

17. Interesting, thank you for the data.

[Alice B.]

19. WTAF

Though I do remember reading somewhere that these kids were unaware of Access Hollywood etc.

[mcar]

4. GenX have been notoriously pro-TSF

They do have some 'splainin' to do.

[Iris]

10. Yes. It is pretty lonely being a Democratic Gen Xer

[Biophilic]

5. Perhaps they will learn that elections have consequences.

And those consequences often impact most of us.

[Boomerproud]

6. That's a very painful lesson we should have learned from by now.

I'm not holding my breath.

[msongs]

7. they have tik tok to comfort them lol nt

[Cha]

11. I Got Advice... Pay Close Attention Before You

vote for a Rapist, Racist, Felon, Sexual Perverted Harasser, Traitor to the USA.. Oh and Pathological LIAR, Pedophile.

I think the Manipulative $$$$$media had a big hand hand in that too.

[KentuckyWoman]

12. I can't keep the Gens straight

Looked them up so many times but it won't stick in my head.

Doesn't matter much to me old or young. Anyone who voted for this and now regrets can cuss word, cuss word, cuss word until someone invents some stronger cuss words. Every single one of them can go cuss word.

[surfered]

13. Me too.

[raccoon]

15. FAFO, did they?

[eShirl]

16. The good news is they're young enough to learn from mistakes.

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, won't get fooled again."

[travelingthrulife]

18. Not to mention they are young enough to pay for all the damage they caused with their foolishness.

[Alice B.]

20. I got the sense they felt he was a subversive candidate and that

… appealed to them.
I live in a college town FWIW.

I was at a small July 4 protest at the edge of campus and a carload of young men took great delight in roaring past us yelling TSF’s name 🙄

[DFW]

21. They ALL should have known better

The only ones with half an excuse are those with both severe dyslexia and total deafness.