A poll shows the president's net favorable rating among those aged 18-29 has fallen dramatically in the past three months.

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.

  • @gdog05
    158•5 days ago

    We’re going to be damned lucky if we get the chance for people to be played again.

    • @[email protected]
      36•5 days ago

      It will happen, might take a generation or three.

      This is all so depressing… Its like there needs to be a massive war every so many years so people remember why it’s important to have a democracy and be kind to one another.

    • @chuckleslord
      18•5 days ago

      Question of when, not if. Fascism isn’t sustainable, it will fail eventually (but gods is depressing to think of it getting real bad)

      • @grueEnglish
        23•5 days ago

        There’s a famous quote about investing by Garry Shilling: “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” Sure, you can say “this is definitely a bubble” and “it will eventually revert to the mean,” but fat lot of good that does you if you’ve already been screwed by the time it happens.

        Similarly, it’s easy to say that dictatorships are doomed to failure “eventually,” but that “eventually” can easily be beyond your lifetime. Just look at North Korea, for instance.

        • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
          7•5 days ago

          north korea isn’t doomed to failure by virtue of how incredible aggressively their abuse their citizenship.

          By literally ANY metric of the definition of failure, except for “dissolution” north korea has utterly failed their citizens. They’ve only managed to keep control through force.