Donald Trump is facing a sharp backlash from young voters, with new polling showing his approval rating among Generation Z has dropped to one of its lowest points yet.
The latest YouGov/Yahoo poll, conducted between June 26-30 among 1,597 adults, shows that among Gen Z voters, his net rating has deteriorated sharply, falling from -23 points in May to -41 points in June.
Net ratings do have a tendency to swing much more than a simple approval rating. Still, the president’s approval rating in June is low, at 27 percent. The margin of error is at plus or minus 3.2 percent.
Lucas Walsh, a youth political behavior expert and professor at Monash University, told Newsweek that Trump’s falling support among Gen Z voters may reflect how young people “respond to issues rather than party allegiances.”
What the fuck is wrong with kids listening to their shitty parents?
/I know a lot of people get raised wrong in households that teach them wrong things and it takes a lot of effort to get better, but… it’s pretty astounding to me to imagine someone listening to their parents tell them that Donald fucking Trump is a Cool Guy.
Kids have little in the way of influence outside of their parents up until they’re in their teens, and they take stuff at face value without questioning it too much.
On the one hand, this is great because a kid can ask a question, get an honest answer, and accept it as fact. This is why every generation seems more socially progressive than the last. You tell a kid that men can love other men, women can love other women, and that sometimes people are born in the wrong body, and they go “Oh, okay. That makes sense.” And now that’s part of their understanding of how the world works.
On the other hand, if a kid is surrounded by their MAGA parents and their parents’ MAGA ride or die friends, they’ll grow up thinking that Trump is right and everybody else is bad. Conservative households especially foster a cult-like mentality it seems, where questioning the beliefs hoisted upon them by their parents is out of the question, and I feel that that has something to do with the conservative mentality. They always accuse progressives of brainwashing and indoctrinating the youth because that’s their relationship with their own kids. My dad grew up in a very conservative household and it wasn’t until he went to college and both got away from his parents as well as met people who grew up in different circumstances than he did that his beliefs completely 180’d.
I bought into my dad’s Fox News talking points at like 15, but I grew out of it. The idea that a grown adult is still parroting their parent’s political views is so weird to me.