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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."

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 seconds ago

There aren't going to be any more elections.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

His polling numbers dont matter. Either he cannot run for president again or he fucks up the government bad enough to allow him to, in which case the vote is going to be rigged AF anyway.

[–] infyrian@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 hour ago

And yet Gen Z still didn't do anything. Loud and proud, until it comes to actually doing anything.

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 hours ago

It doesn't matter.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Just wait about 20 minutes, Newsweek will have a headline about fascism and GenZ. I loath that clickbait factory.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 hours ago

Way too fucking late...

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 60 points 6 hours ago

Repeat after me: He doesn't fucking care.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Glad Gen Z is waking up.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 202 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

The fact that he ever had an approval rating with Gen Z is mind-boggling.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I was just at lunch, the table next door had a bunch of Trump gear on, even the teenagers. I overheard bits of conversation and it was totally normal stuff, which makes me wonder what attracts people to such a gross person

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

If you’re just watching the evening news and not looking into things further, Trump is not painted in such as light as we see in say articles linked here on Lemmy. Abrego Garcia? Well that was just one mistake. Mistakes happen right? I’m sure they’ll fix it. Then you move on with the rest of your life without giving it more thought. I think that is how seemingly “normal” people buy into this.

Media sanewashing honestly.

They treat a complete fascist as if he's a normal politician of a normal party.

That's how.

There's also a degree to which conservative media and conservative culture teach their people to act like they are more inline with the mainstream. There's old stuff that's been going on forever like using coded language so they talk about an "urban problem" instead of openly saying that black people are the problem or they'll talk about "New York people" instead of openly saying that Jewish people are the problem. If you haven't been exposed to that then some of what they're saying can sound somewhat reasonable.

Then there is the "respect" thing. Conservative parents are big about emphasizing how you say something over what you say. So they're fine with saying that disabled people should just die as long as it's not phrased that way. It should sound more like "It's sad that some people are sick but there are only so many resources and we need to put them where they're most productive. Hopefully their family can take care of them." It's more etiquette than real respect but they make a big deal out of it.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Gen Z was around 12-27 years old during the election. I think part of it could honestly be due to brain development.

[–] meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Also the youth vote usually doesn't support the incumbent as kids kinda like to rebel.

[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

Supporting the conservative party which seeks to undo progress and maintain the status quo as a form of "rebellion" is so goddamn typical of idiot kids. The elderly and young people agree on one general stance: "idk wtf you're talking about and I absolutely don't like it or want it."

The shrink of our memories and attention spans will have been our undoing. It's probably already over, and it'll be another 50 years or so before people realize it. Idk if we can ever recover from all of this, so I'm just gonna drink and play video games between chores today instead of watching for current events.

It's important to take breaks from the doom and gloom. We can take a day off from rearranging deck chairs once in a while. We owe it to ourselves.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 45 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think people forget that the 19 year olds voting for him were 10 when the “Grab ‘em by the pussy” shit happened. Not that it’s an excuse to not pay attention but a lot of the people who voted for him didn’t have the benefit of hindsight and spent the entire pandemic alone in their rooms listening to Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.

[–] Charapaso@lemmy.world 3 points 56 minutes ago

Yeah, and it also feels "forever ago" when you're that age. Literally half their lives. So I could understand them thinking it's "old news", but when you're an old and crusty 40 year old, you know that a 60 someone saying heinous shit means that person is deeply twisted.

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 74 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I assume it had to do with the parents being supporters too.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 89 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Also the incel shits like that tate fucker being targeted towards young men.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 43 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

That movement has done so much damage, there isn't a hole deep enough to throw manosphere influencers into

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I would say the Mariana Trench, but I don't want to pollute the oceans.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Well the oceans already pretty bad. How bout we chopper them out to the plastic island and they can live on its surface, choking on old coke bottles for sustainance?

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

What's wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh god we’re calling it the manosphere? 😒

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 4 hours ago

That's been around a while, sadly.

I am however up for calling a midlife crisis The Manopause.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

Didn’t his son turn him on to TikTok, where I assume he got a bunch of Gen Z voters? I assume all these q-tips in Florida aren’t on there.

[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

When you're young you want to rebel against the establishment. They are being told the establishment wants rights for women and gays and men's rights are being taken away. So they are going the opposite direction to be contrarian. Unfortunately young men at that age have very little empathy for anyone else. They have to know what's in it for them.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 61 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is why they set up the bill to kick in after the midterms.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 32 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yep it'll all be the Dems fault. Everyone will have forgotten about this bill and right wing media will push the lie. Easy money they say.

What's worse is dems might win and those same dumbasses that voted for them will question why they didn't unfuck decades of this shit in a single term and then sit on their lazy asses the election after.

And thus the cycle will repeat.

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 20 points 9 hours ago

Yeah. They expect to lose the midterms. Let the bill kick in, and then blame the Democrats for it. ‘How could they let this happen?! Vote for us in 2028 to get your healthcare back’ or something like that.

[–] modestmeme@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago

He could be the most hated man in history and it don’t mean shit if you don’t get off your ass and vote.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 17 points 8 hours ago

If the US still had free and fair elections, they’d be worried

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 8 hours ago

This will have no effect on what happens to us going forward.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 9 points 8 hours ago

I guess better late than never but time will tell. 8 months ago would have been nicer...

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

Approval rating collapsing after the election? Is that the modern version of the "closing the barn door after the horse got out" saying?

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 hours ago

27% approval rating, like, you have to TRY and get that low.