In the latest edition of The NYT’s “America in Focus” project, Trump voters in their late 20s and early 30s who said they “somewhat disapproved” of or had mixed views about the president’s performance were asked about their reasons why.
This is a bit of copium - the article is only reporting on the survey subset of young Trump voters who shifted enough to disapprove or had “mixed views” on Trump, and then choosing choice quotes to play to a narrative.
The bigger statistic is:
A Pew Research Center survey in August showed that 69 percent of Trump voters under 35 approved of his performance as president. While still a substantial number, it represents a dramatic 23-point decline compared to the start of his second term.
So Trump’s support in under-35s fell 23% since January. That’s significant, but amount Trump voters, 69% approval is still high and contradicts the narrative of the headline.
ChetManly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Of only there were signs ahead of time…
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yeah I really though this article would be about young voters, like 18 to 22 or so. I was thinking how dumbass kids in or fresh outta HS could just see the system as completely broken (it mostly is) and think that some jerkoff conman would be just the thing to shake things up. Or at least I could see that for the 2016 election, and maybe they’ve been living under a rock for 10 years–I’m trying to be charitable in this interpretation.
But the article was about late 20s early 30s voters, and it’s just like wtf did you fucking expect? Anyone who hasn’t seen through the con at this point is either complicit or dumb as a bag of hammers. Do these people also give their money to every scam email that lands in their inbox ffs?