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Because young people are gullible and weren't paying attention when he was president before.

Source: I was a young gullible millennial who voted for him in 2016

Podcasts are super popular right now. Theo Von, Joe Rogan, Kill Tony, Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker all have a huge audience. They are all pro Trump; Tony famously spoke at a Trump rally, and Rogan is constantly pushing a pro conservative message.

Social networks have all gone to the right, as their leadership stands to benefit. Most of our major newspapers and entertainment networks are also owned by billionaires.

They own the messaging right now, and people aren't thinking critically because they are either distracted or don't know how.

They came of age during Trump’s first presidency, when he inherited a lot of gains made under Obama’s tenure. They saw things go to shit during Biden, who inherited both a pandemic and the consequences of Trump’s actions, and was a bit lackluster in dealing with them.

They simply didn’t have the life experience to see the bigger picture beyond that. Trump seemed like a good president because their lives were better during his presidency, but correlation does not equal causation.

He was extremely popular with GenZ men. They were hitting voting age during his first term, when they reaped all of the benefits of things like the rock bottom COVID interest rates. Many of them were able to buy houses fresh out of school, while the millennials before them were so bogged down by student debt that they weren’t able to get those low interest loans. And then they saw Biden fail to address (or at least fail to broadcast that he had addressed) virtually any of their concerns.

And all of that started while they were still barely 18, and lacked the knowledge to understand that many of Trump’s biggest wins were inherited from the previous administration, or that Biden had been handed a shit sandwich and was making do with what he had.

The education system spends a lot of our elementary years inducting us into the propaganda engine. We pledge allegiance to the flag and learn about how we won the west and how we beat off the British.

You slowly get ideas that that's all kind of BS throughout school. Once you get out into the real world you get disillusioned if you're lucky. You either follow the propaganda, or you think he's just another in a long line of assholes. The American dream is a pipe dream you don't love anything That's likely coming for you in life so why not watch it burn, It seems to be pissing a bunch of people off which is an unexpected amount of power.

And it's all perfectly fine right up until the point where you yourself are burning and scared for what little you're given in life.

Because people see him as a disruptor. They think that if they change things radically, they will end up on top.

To be fair, if they are 18 now and voted for the first time they were 10 when he was first elected.

During the election I assumed that the younger cohort was lock-step opposed to trump — until — my college age daughter told me that many of her school friends were probably voting for him. I was absolutely flabbergasted and had to reset a lot of assumptions I’d settled into. During the first trump administration, I was clinging to the expectation that younger generations would be our saviors, but I can no longer count on that.

How can someone that young think trump is a good choice is something I can't fathom.

Lack of experience seeing these kinds of people.

I once saw someone explain Trump's popularity...

Cityfolk can tell that this guy is a useless yapping businessman who probably doesn't know shit, and is probably going to rip you off and stab you in the back at any opportunity he gets (maybe just for fun).

People in rural areas haven't had as many opportunities to interact with these kinds of people, so they aren't on high alert.

The reason those scummy business people are so successful is because they're charismatic (in a way), they're confident, and they give answers that people want to hear (even if it's a fabrication).

Confident, charismatic people that say what people want to hear? He's going to get a lot of votes. Especially from the people who don't know how to detect that.

Then there's the fact that Trump blames his enemies for his failings, combined with various psychological factors in the voters (sunk-cost? Being blind to their own lack of knowledge?)... he's able to maintain his status amongst his cult.

I'm in my 40s. I spend a lot of time at the bar. I see a lot of 20-somethings talking pro-Trump or just thinking it'd be funny to vote for him to "shake things up".

I've yet to see anyone express regret yet though. I do see a lot more red hats. I do have to resist murder.

He somehow gained support with gen Z from 2016->2024.

Sorry, but anyone dumb enough to vote for Donald Trump after witnessing his first term is too stupid to learn from their mistakes.

No, that’s exactly not what’s should happen. This whole mess has its roots in the fact that everyone only cares about populism and partisanship.

The solution isn’t to blindly turn to the Democrats, because then the whole thing will tip right over in the other direction, which will be different, but not better.

What’s really needed is a reformed Republican party, that can offer real competition to the Dems, instead of pushing a platform of a popular liar to win elections, while dismantling the fabric of democracy and driving the country into a wall.

here's the funny thing we can laugh about in the rubble searching for safe food and water, they won't admit ever doing it

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