'Both Parties Kind of Get It Wrong': The Young Men Who May Swing the Midterms

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Propelled by economic anxiety, young men lurched to the right in the 2024 election — a 15-percent swing from 2020 — and helped Mr. Trump win the White House, setting off a round of soul-searching among Democratic politicians and strategists who were dismayed that this once-reliable demographic had fallen away.

A year and a half later, some Gen Z men say they are disillusioned by Mr. Trump’s second term. A variety of surveys have shown that young voters are veering sharply away from Mr. Trump since the last presidential election, and recent New York Times/Siena College polls found that Mr. Trump’s approval rating with young men fell by about 10 percentage points in the past few months.

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Since Mr. Trump’s victory, Democrats have begun to focus in earnest on bringing young men back into the fold, raising the alarm over various indicators that they are floundering: Men are graduating from college at declining rates and are 10 percentage points less likely to hold bachelor’s degrees than women; their median hourly wage, adjusted for inflation, is lower today among the working class than it was 50 years ago; and they account for about 70 percent of what are called “deaths of despair” — deaths from suicide or overdose.

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Some, for instance, said a traditional family dynamic, with a man as the breadwinner for his wife and children, would give them purpose — an aspiration of masculinity they said they believed the left discourages.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/us/politics/up-for-grabs-can-democrats-sway-young-men-who-have-soured-on-trump.html?

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I am so sick of these whiny-ass baby-men who feel so emasculated by the modern world.
They want aspirational breadwinner status?
So why are they flunking out of college and sitting around smoking pot and playing video games?

Fuck.These.Guys.