No country for angry young men



When one of Donald Trump’s strongest voting blocs starts to fall off after just six months of a largely successful second term, it’s time for some soul-searching.

Not just because the midterms loom or because 2028 is already on the horizon. The demographic in question — young men — will shape, defend, and lead this country well beyond the next election. If they’ve grown too cynical to bother, the rest of us may be left holding the bag.

When the past and present betray a generation, expect that generation to reshape the future.

Trump’s 2024 performance with 18- to 29-year-old men marked the best Republican showing since George W. Bush won that demographic in 2004 — the last time the GOP won the popular vote. Young men backed Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, then defected to Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Bush 43 pulled them back temporarily, but by the time Obama, Hillary, and Biden came along, Democrats had captured their hearts — and their votes.

Yikes. That’s no way to live. Yet today’s young men are angrier, more cynical, more disruptive — and more serious. They don’t want to “save” Social Security. They want to be saved from it. They aren’t starting out wide-eyed like the Boomers. They didn’t get the luxury of being idealists first and realists later. They started with realism, forged by debt, disillusionment, and betrayal.

These young men want a way of life back. They want accountability for the people who stole it from them.

The average 25-year-old white male is already more “based” than his Reagan-voting grandfather ever was or ever could be. And he’s not finding any comfort in Fox News. So the question is: Will anyone offer him a white pill before he plants the flag of “I just don’t care any more” at the 50-yard line of American life?

This generation won’t follow unless they’re given a mission worth sacrificing for. Trump’s brand won’t carry them forever. They can’t afford homes. They can’t find wives who aren’t steeped in feminist dogma. They can’t compete in a DEI-rigged job market. And now they’re expected to watch the people who ruined their future skate by without consequences?

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

Young men like my son don’t want slogans. They want justice. They want our leaders to treat domestic traitors at least as ruthlessly as we’ve treated our allies in trade negotiations. They’ve seen enough memes. If the memes don’t end in prison time, they’ll see them as mockery. They want consequences — and they want them handed out with severe prejudice.

That’s the instinct of men who’ve been cornered for too long. Dread it, run from it — it’s coming. Unless we offer them something better, they’ll start making something worse.

Don’t count on them to keep voting Republican just because the Democrats are just that bad. That’s a losing bet. These young men reject the old paradigms — left, right, Reagan, Bush. Whatever. They’ve even begun questioning the biblical dispensationalism that guided American foreign policy for decades.

When the past and present betray a generation, expect that generation to reshape the future.

Our shot at shaping that future is now. If we fail to hold the deep state accountable yet again, then we’d better produce an economic boom big enough to distract from the urge to burn everything down.

We’ve convinced ourselves that soft, passive men define the modern male. But history — and nature — doesn’t work that way. Sooner or later, the animal comes roaring back — and a new generation rises, looking to settle scores.

Better get ready.

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Poll hits Dems with big dose of reality: It's not just Super Bowl fans cheering on Trump



The crowd at the New Orleans Superdome went wild Sunday when President Donald Trump took to the field. They erupted into applause again at the sight of their commander in chief raising a salute during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Between Trump's reception at Super Bowl LIX and the results of the 2024 election, it is clear that the man long vilified by Democrats and their allies is genuinely popular among the American people.

Any critics still clinging to delusion and doubt on this point were dealt another blow over the weekend in the form of a CBS News/YouGov poll, which revealed that the country — especially the under-30 crowd — is majoritively behind the president.

According to the poll, which was conducted from Feb. 5 to Feb. 7, 53% of respondents signaled approval for the job Trump is doing — a figure "Face the Nation" anchor Margaret Brennan begrudgingly admitted marked the highest approval rating for Trump in a CBS News poll to date.

Some keen observers seized upon particulars in the cross tabs indicating that Trump's post-election explosion in popularity among young Americans has not dissipated.

When asked whether they approved of the way Trump was handling his job as president, 50% of respondents 65 and older, 56% of Americans ages 45 to 64, 52% of Americans ages 30 to 44, and 55% of Americans under 30 answered in the affirmative.

Trump's relatively high approval rating among members of the under-30 crowd caught the eye of CNN's politics reporter Andy Kaczynski, who said the "interesting numbers" amounted to a 10-point bump for the president.

An Economist/YouGov poll conducted from Nov. 17-19 found that 57% of respondents ages 18 to 29 said they had a favorable view of Trump — a result that Newsweek indicated marked a week-over-week net favorability increase of 19 points for Trump among members of that age cohort. An Emerson College poll released in late November similarly found that 55% of voters under 30 expressed a favorable opinion of Trump.

It appears that the grieving Democratic parents quoted in the New York Times' Jan. 19 sob piece titled "When Your Son Goes MAGA" are far from isolated cases and that Trump's popularity among young Americans was not a flash in the pan.

The CBS poll indicated further that Trump continues to enjoy far greater popularity among men, with 60% signaling approval, whereas only 47% of women said they approved of how he was handling his job as president.

'Americans are overwhelmingly positive about President Donald J. Trump's return to office.'

Regardless of whether they approved of him or not, 70% of respondents indicated that Trump was fulfilling promises made during his campaign. Among the 49% of respondents who admitted that Trump has done more than they expected he would do in his first weeks in office, 61% said the actions taken so far are mostly things they like.

To the likely chagrin of those Democrats still licking their wounds after humiliating defeats on Nov. 5, 69% of respondents described Trump as "tough"; 63% described him as "energetic"; 60% described him as "focused"; and 58% described him as "effective."

When asked about the Trump's administration's program to deport illegal aliens, 59% of respondents signaled approval. An overwhelming 64% of respondents supported Trump's deployment of American troops to the southern border.

It appears that all the attacks in the legacy media and from Democrats have done little to convince Americans to majoritively distrust the work undertaken by Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency.

According to the poll, 51% of respondents said Musk and DOGE should have a lot or some influence over government operations and spending. Eighteen percent of respondents said they should not have much control, and 31% of respondents said that the efficiency team that helped expose the U.S. Agency for International Development should have no influence whatsoever.

Trump's proposed tariffs are apparently less popular.

While a majority of respondents supported imposing tariffs on goods from China, 56% of respondents opposed tariffs on goods from Mexico, 60% opposed tariffs on goods from Europe, and 62% opposed tariffs on goods from Canada. Nearly three in four Americans surveyed suspect that such tariffs would lead to price increases.

The White House said in a Sunday statement obtained by The Hill, "New polling from CBS News shows Americans are overwhelmingly positive about President Donald J. Trump's return to office and his commitment to making good on his promises."

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