Donald Trump Enters Fall Election With The Big Tent Republicans Failed To Build For Decades

Trump has made inroads with minority voters without alienating the party's white base because the former president's activism is genuine.

White Leftists Cry ‘Racism’ To Win Political Battles — Even When Nonwhites Oppose Them

White leftists call anyone who disagrees with them racist and then refuse to live by their own race-baiting rules.

Pew survey finds that around 5% of US adults under the age of 30 identify as a gender other than the sex recorded at their birth



A Pew Research survey found that while just 1.6% of U.S. adults fit into the categories of transgender or nonbinary, a whopping 5.1% of adults under the age of 30 fall into those categories.

There is a significant disparity between the proportions of younger adults and older adults who identify as a gender other than their sex as recorded at birth: Just 1.6% of U.S. adults ages 30 to 49, and 0.3% of individuals over 50 fall into the categories of transgender or nonbinary, according to the survey.

\u201cSome 5.1% of adults younger than 30 are trans or nonbinary, including 2.0% who are a trans man or trans woman and 3.0% who are nonbinary. This compares with 1.6% of 30- to 49-year-olds and 0.3% of those 50 and older who are trans or nonbinary. https://t.co/fDKtj9hPM9\u201d
— Pew Research Center (@Pew Research Center) 1654621562

Pew carried out focus groups with transgender and nonbinary adults, and quoted many statements made by the participants.

"There’s so much fear around it, and misunderstanding, and people thinking that if you're talking to kids about gender and sexuality, that it's sexual," a non-binary person in their early 30s said, according to Pew. "And it's like, we really need to break down that our bodies are not inherently sexual. We need to be able to talk with students and children about their bodies so that they can then feel empowered to understand themselves, advocate for themselves."

Many parents vehemently oppose the idea of exposing innocent children to radical leftist gender ideology.

A non-binary individual in their mid 30s said that, "people think nonbinary is some made-up thing to feel cool. It’s not to feel cool. And if someone does do it to feel cool, maybe they're just doing that because they don't feel comfortable within themselves."

A non-binary person in their late 20s remarked, "What words would I use to describe me? Genderless, if gender wasn’t a thing. … I guess if pronouns didn't exist and you just called me [by my name]. That's what my gender is … And I do use nonbinary also, just because it feels easier, I guess."

An early 30s transgender man said, "I thought that by figuring out that I was interested in women, identifying as lesbian, I thought [my anxiety and sadness] would dissipate in time, and that was me cracking the code. But then, when I got older, I left home for the first time. I started to meet other trans people in the world. That's when I started to become equipped with the vocabulary. The understanding that this is a concept, and this makes sense. And that's when I started to understand that I wasn't cisgender." A transgender man is a biological woman who identifies as a man.

Survey finds that a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaners think that people getting too easily offended by what others say is a major problem in the US



A Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults found that while 84% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think that people getting too easily offended by other people's comments represents a major problem in America, while only 50% of Democrats and Democratic leaners felt that way.

Similarly, the survey found that just 40% of Republicans and Republican-leaners think that people making remarks that are very offensive to others is currently a major problem in the nation, while 63% of Democrats and Democrat-leaners consider this to be a major problem.

Overall, the survey which was carried out in July found that 65% of U.S. adults think that people getting too easily offended by what others say is a major problem.

The survey also found that 53% of U.S. adults believe that individuals making comments that are very offensive to other people represents a major problem in the nation.

Many Americans strongly advocate for the importance of upholding the right to free speech, including speech that some people may even find deeply offensive.

Many have also been critical of the cancel culture movement and of big tech companies that censor certain kinds of speech.

When it comes to the tenets of the transgender movement, even stating biological facts has been deemed unacceptable. For instance, earlier this year Twitter temporarily suspended Blaze Media's Allie Beth Stuckey after she noted that transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbbard, who competed in the Olympics against women, is actually a man and should not be permitted to compete against females.

Pew Research survey shows the political right's declining trust in information from the national news media



A Pew Research survey carried out June 14-27 of this year indicates that not only do those on the political right have a much lower level of trust regarding information from national news organizations than those on the political left, but the right's level of trust has steeply declined since 2016.

While a whopping 78% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents indicated that they have "a lot" or "some" trust regarding the information flowing from national news outfits, a much smaller 35% of Republicans and Republican-leaning individuals shared that sentiment. The 35% figure is merely a half of the 70% level recorded back in 2016.

"The 35% of Republicans who have at least some trust in national news organizations in 2021 is half that of in 2016 (70%) – and has dropped 14 points since late 2019 (49%)," according to Pew Research.

More than half of U.S. adults (58%) have "a lot" or "some trust" regarding the information emerging from national news organizations, though only 12% had "a lot" of trust.

Some on the political right have long been critical of mainstream media, contending that it exhibits liberal bias or even engages in the propagation of falsehoods.

Former President Donald Trump has been a frequent and vocal media critic.

"There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly," Trump tweeted in 2018, according to The Hill.

"The press is doing everything within their power to fight the magnificence of the phrase, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! They can't stand the fact that this Administration has done more than virtually any other Administration in its first 2yrs. They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" Trump tweeted in 2019.

Trump and others have also been outspoken critics of social media companies. Trump himself has been subjected to censorship and deplatforming, including when he was permanently suspended from Twitter earlier this year during the waning days of his presidency.

"Social media is trusted by a minority of both parties, though a partisan gap still exists," according to Pew's survey. "About a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (34%) and 19% of Republicans and Republican leaners say they have at least some trust in the information that comes from social media – a 15-point gap. This gap is larger than gaps from any other time in recent years and has nearly doubled since late 2019."

Share of young adults living with their parents highest ever recorded



The share of young adults in the U.S. who live with their parents is the highest ever recorded, according to a recently released Pew Research analysis.

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The report found that a majority — 52% — of adults ages 18-29 are residing at home with at least one parent. The percentage, measured in July, beat the previous record of 48% set at the end of the Great Depression in 1940.

Pew cites the coronavirus pandemic as the main driver of the increase, which brings the total number of young adults living at home to 26.6 million, up 2.6 million from February.

It should be noted, however, that the number was already near historic levels before the pandemic, as 47% of adults ages 18-29 reported living at home in February, just one percentage point off from the highest Great Depression numbers.

Pew reported that the increase affected all major demographics but was sharpest among young white adults and those ages 18-24.

"The number and share of young adults living with their parents grew across the board for all major racial and ethnic groups, men and women, and metropolitan and rural residents, as well as in all four main census regions," the report stated.

The share of U.S. young adults living with their parents is now higher than any previous measurement. Before 2020,… https://t.co/HfzckJCEeO
— Pew Research Center (@Pew Research Center)1599230582.0

The pandemic has hit the younger demographic particularly hard, as many college campuses have closed down due to health concerns and job prospects have been erased. One-quarter of those ages 16-24 have lost their jobs since the start of the pandemic.

The coronavirus-related shutdowns have also had an adverse effect on the mental welfare of this population group.

In August, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a whopping 25.5% of adults ages 18-24 considered suicide in June, a figure eerily similar to the number of those who lost their jobs.

The survey also found that young adults were disproportionately dealing with a host of other mental health issues, such as "symptoms of anxiety disorder or depressive disorder, COVID-19-related [trauma- and stressor-related disorder] TSRD, initiation of or increase in substance use to cope with COVID-19-associated stress."

In a bit of good news for the economy, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.4% in August, marking the first time unemployment has been recorded in the single digits since March. The economy also continued its slow climb back by adding 1.4 million jobs.