What are they gonna do? Not vote for him again? I don't think Trump gives a shit.
The young men in his base aren't doing better economically
Cry me a fucking river and drown in it.
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Sadly, I think the leopards are only beginning to lick his face.
Unless you mean his followers are getting their faces eaten. Then…
Yes, the young men who followed Trump in 2024 are becoming disillusioned and discouraged by their continued financial problems and broken promises about smashing elite pedophiles. Their lives are still miserable, and their heroic crusade seems to have ended without a satisfied conclusion.
The Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump Again pipeline is roller-coaster. But I'm afraid it really does exist.
Plenty of lay voters ping-pong between whichever political leader is popular or trending, because their media of choice is more interested in spinning out an exciting, engaging narrative than building any kind of ideology or class character within the audience. Trump was going to "Drain the Swamp" in the same way Obama was going to "Yes We Can" and Bush was going to "Restore Honor and Integrity To The White House".
The end of this ride is just burnout. People getting whiplash from being dragged liberal/conservative/liberal/conservative by their nose for too long and just growing cold and cynical. This lasts until a sufficiently exciting media campaign juices them back up again for one more rug pull.
If you're hoping that there's some subset of people who are Getting What They Deserve, you're falling into the same trap that gave us Trump to begin with. You're losing any kind of faith in a better country or a better kind of politics and just settling for "I hope my ideological opponents are miserable".
The people who really won the Trump '24 campaign are the ones currently crawling into the brains of Third Way Democrats like a worm RFK picked up off a dead dog's carcass. They're not suffering. They're not going to lose the next election cycle, no matter what happens. They won't be the one's getting their faces eaten. They'll just change out their skins for a new set of spots.
It's even simpler than that: "Vote the bum out!" is all you need. It is, after all, much easier to oppose than to govern.
That's the impulse. Not even necessarily a bad one. But you can't vote all the bums out if they're on both sides of the ticket.
Not with THAT attitude!
Man, this guy will sure regret alienating all these people the next time he runs a totally fair election!
If he doesnt get 240% of the votes like that liberian guy, i dont want him as president /j
Young angry and disillusioned men with guns are a problem regardless of if there's an election. They're unpredictable and known for their electric shotgun approach to interacting with leadership
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I'm fairly young myself, 33. College years are still somewhat fresh in my mind. I like to think of young people as really open-minded and enlightened. But young people are also fucking idiots and very impressionable. Check out the YouTube channel "ranting for vengeance" to see a teenager who is mind-bogglingly ignorant. Who raised this fucker? I hate to insult a child, but man, this kid is so prejudiced it will render you speechless.
Not gonna give them views.
Epstein files exposed to them he was not on their team.
Otherwise he is doing what he promised and they like it.
I mean... cool, I guess. Kinda too late to make any difference, though. The time to figure out Trump was a narcissistic tyrant was before voting for him.
No it's not. We've seen headlines for 10 years saying this or that group are starting to sour on Trump, and yet here we are.
Right now, their "declining" support is based solely on the Epstein files. Which means that they'll continue to support fascists as soon as Rogan, Peterson, etc al, can convince them that the Epstein files have been released and were never that interesting, or that maybe we'll never see the Epstein files but that's old news and something else is way more important now.
My bet is on the latter, since that's just a matter of less time spent talking about the Epstein files and more time spent talking about [distraction].
lol “voters”
In my opinion, don't blame the young voters for their choice. At least not entirely. They've been getting spoon fed propaganda by the internet, their parents, and the news their entire lives. Blame the parents that made everything their kids were doing a political issue from the moment they were conceived. Blame the platforms that have been incentivizing hate on their platforms for money. Blame the corporations that have been actively brainwashing people since the era of social media began. Blame the news for never telling the truth and making everything a spectacle.
People have agency. Don’t take that away from them.
The flip side of this is that it has to be praiseworthy to pass through that gauntlet and still care about other people. Eclusively negative incentives don't work.
This would matter if they voted, but since they don't, who cares?