alt Hacker NewsWhich groups are those?
"Among voters under 26 years old, the only race-by-gender group to have majority support for Harris are women of color."
"Our best estimate is that immigrant voters swung from a Biden+27 voting bloc in 2020 to a Trump+1 group in 2024. This is not a small group either - naturalized citizens make up around 10% of the electorate."
(Source Blue Rose Research, a top data analysis firm hired by Democrats: https://data.blueroseresearch.org/hubfs/2024%20Blue%20Rose%2.... Pages 7 and 9.)
You're overlooking that the geriatric people are carrying on the traditional liberal/conservative debate on both sides of the aisle. My observation living in an area that has a mix of 70+ WASPs and younger black and hispanic people is that the WASPs are the ones who are by far the most incensed by Trump. They don't just dislike his policies. They hate the way he talks.
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I think that's exactly what OP meant? While Trump's policies take the long term gerontocratic/anarcho-capitalist dynamics strangling of our society and crank them to 11, a lot of younger people ended up buying into his "burn it all down" messaging imagining it would result in some principled evenly-applied reform that might get the boot off their own necks. And that level of foolishness seems straight from the naive rashness of youth.
> You're overlooking that the geriatric people are carrying on the traditional liberal/conservative debate on both sides of the aisle.
Workers skew young, capital skews old. When politics is money literally the only thing the left / right actually agree on is fucking over young people. That's what it takes to collectively focus on inflating real-estate / stocks that the youth is locked out of, while ignoring the labor market, and the cost of education, and periodically blowing up the economy on behalf of interest groups, with outsourcing or the like previously, next with AI. We've probably been in a job recession for years, and we only just noticed.