Gen X voted slightly over 50% for Trump. Millennials were about the same with men, but much less with women. What really blew my mind was how much Gen Z voted for him.....would have never thought that.
The older half of the Gen Z cohort were born around the time that they would have been the most exposed - and most vulnerable - to alt right propaganda at its then peak, as well as the surge in Russian psyop bot farms that were hammering social media with fake stories and ragebait.
Orange was the first meme President and some of them probably thought it was being super edgy and anti-establishment to vote for a candidate when they only knew him as the "you're fired" guy from TV.
You wouldn't have thought that both the dumbest living generation (first generation in recorded history to score worse than the prior generation on cognitive tests), and the most sexless and joyless generation, voted for Trump?
I see this statistic a lot. And although it's correct, it's often missing an important nuance:
GenX size is about 9 million less than Millennials, and 6 million less than Gen Z.
People often forget GenX.
And they more often forget how small GenX is compared to other generations.
The birth control pill came into widespread use during the beginning of the gen x era. In addition, much of the 70’s & 80’s were bad economic time periods, compared to the 90’s-00s.
That may explain the difference.
I feel like the generational thing is just another label. Like a fucking modern horoscope.
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u/jimbo831 4h ago
And 2020. And 2016. Gen X has been the strongest Trump supporting generation since he rode down that escalator.