The article takes a long time to come to the conclusion that young men are voting for Trump because they're losers, thaf it's trolling and their way of giving in. Classic lazy millennials trope.
It says nothing about the obvious status of trump as an outsider and the desire of the young to change the status quo.
It goes to mention that both generations have had the American dream shattered but then goes on to say the older generation that votes for Trump is somehow better because reasons.
The truth is the reasons that most people across age groups voted for Trump was the same. They were tired of getting screwed and thought pulling in someone kinda crazy from outside politics would be better than continuing the Clinton dynasty with Hillary.
It's funny that an article that mostly talks about younger Trump voters being losers because they aren't doing anything about their situation fails to grasp that voting for somebody as crazy as Trump was pretty much the best thing these voters could do to gaurantee change, for better or worse.
"The older generation of Trump supporters the press often focuses on, the so called “forgotten white working class”, are in this sense easier to explain since they fit into the schema of a 1950s-style electorate. Like the factory workers in Factotum, the baby boomers were promised pensions and prosperity, but received instead simply the promises.
Here the narrative is simple. The workers were promised something and someone (the politicians? the economy? the system itself?) never delivered. Their horse never came in.
This telling of the story ignores the fact that, as Trump often points out, “it was a bad deal”. The real story is not that the promise was never fulfilled. Manny and Hank’s deal with the workers was the same as the factory’s deal with them: the empty promise was the bargain. The real story is not that the horse didn’t come in, it’s that the bet was never placed"
Hense the support of Trump as a joke, a prank, as it doesn't really matter, as they are powerless anyway
It says nothing about the obvious status of trump as an outsider and the desire of the young to change the status quo.
It goes to mention that both generations have had the American dream shattered but then goes on to say the older generation that votes for Trump is somehow better because reasons.
The truth is the reasons that most people across age groups voted for Trump was the same. They were tired of getting screwed and thought pulling in someone kinda crazy from outside politics would be better than continuing the Clinton dynasty with Hillary.
It's funny that an article that mostly talks about younger Trump voters being losers because they aren't doing anything about their situation fails to grasp that voting for somebody as crazy as Trump was pretty much the best thing these voters could do to gaurantee change, for better or worse.