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Summary
Donald Trump’s popularity among Generation Z voters has sharply declined since the 2024 election, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll.
His net favorability among 18-29-year-olds has dropped from +19 in November to -18, raising concerns for Republicans about sustaining youth support.
While Trump gained ground with young voters in 2024, recent policies—such as his mass deportation plan and targeting of DEI initiatives—may have contributed to this decline.
Yeah. I’ve got a high school teacher in my life, they told me recently that many of their Seniors can’t do what Freshmen could just ten years ago, and they have a shocking amount of Seniors who can’t even read at a second grade level (they teach general ed, not special ed). I mean, not five or twelve of them, but like 30 or 40 percent. They say the kids struggle super hard these days (again, relative to Freshmen a decade ago) to analyze text and form original thoughts, and it’s almost like they’ve all been trained to just be told what to think. In a way, I guess that’s true, thanks to the Algorithm. I think we’re seeing the fruit of that; the algorithm has told these boys what to think, and now they get to find out for themselves what the consequences of that is.