The 2024 election didn’t go as planned for Democrats. Besides solidifying the working class and non-college-educated voters in President Donald Trump’s camp, the race exposed the degree to which young men are disenchanted with the Democratic Party. They have been steadily shifting away from Democrats over the last two decades, but most of this drop-off has happened since 2016, coinciding with Trump’s arrival on the political scene. Trump turned a predictable Generation Z gender partisan gap into a chasm. While 51% of young men used to identify as Democrat, now more young men identify as Republican, according to the Survey Center on American Life.
Since losing in November, Democrats have tried to figure out what drove young men away. Self-proclaimed bro whisperer Tim Walz recently consulted
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