Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election
Male Gen Z voters are breaking with Donald Trump and the Republican party at large, recent polls show, less than a year after this same cohort defied convention and made a surprise shift right, helping Trump win the 2024 election.
Taken with wider polling suggesting Democrats will lead in the midterms, the findings on young men spell serious trouble for the Republican Party in 2026.
Younger Gen Z men, those born between 2002 and 2007, may be even more anti-Trump, according to October research from YouGov and the Young Men’s Research Project, a potential sign that their time living through the social upheavals of the Covid pandemic and not being political aware during the first Trump administration may be shaping their experience.
I get what you mean, but frankly, it’s hard for a european to understand just how fundamentally broken the electoral system in the US is. The two-party system is rigidly enforced through a number of institutions and mechanisms - the electoral college, the judiciary, the tricameral system, etc. and it would need an extremely organized radical campaign to change that system, and while that system is in place, no party will ever give a shit about third parties, because they are completely irrelevant. Even if through some miracle a third party won the presidency, they would be completely incapable of enacting basically any changes.
Neither party is too concerned about losing votes to a third party, because both parties are fundamentally the same where it matters to them, so even if they lose, they know that the winner will keep things more or less on the straight and narrow until they get another shot.
If you are able to build an organized movement to change the two party system, you’d be better off just doing a revolution anyways.