Then how do you think the Gen-Z Tumblr teens who are growing up now will turn out? They’re forming their political worldview during the Trump years, I believe that they were somewhat continuing the trend of the younger Millennials but that’s the sort of thing that seems likely to change.
I’m not sure. The Obama Administration continued with the droning, and bombing, and disrupted Libya, but its outward presentation, aided by the Media, was pretty chill, and as such it didn’t generate quite the same sort of backlash. Who will grow up, look at Obama, and celebrate voting for the other party at the first opportunity because they feel like they missed the chance to oppose him the first/second time around?
Like, on one level, they should obviously react to Trump negatively and become Dem voters, right?
So like, that’s what should happen, but…
Last I heard, trust in the Media is lower than trust in President Trump. We’ve elected a living internet meme as President, and somehow this has happened.
(I admit, the reaction to the Trump Admin has made me more, rather than less, sympathetic towards it. Perhaps I’m just evil that way.)
Likewise, the Dems have tied themselves up in idpol knots, and that stuff is toxic. And aside from that they have other problems.
And the whole gamer thing? That was supposed to have way less memeforce than it did, but the political awakening of thousands of young people was the Media lying about them over exploded Internet drama.
And the lid’s blown on some of the stuff going on in Europe. You can choose whether to believe it or not, or whether it’s important or not, but it’s no longer a supremacy of the Liberal narrative that multiculturalism has no downsides whatsoever and is completely safe.
I think, probably, Trump is actually going to generate less generational backlash than Bush did. That’s what my intuition says. By being such a meme, he’s turned hatred against himself into a performance, and that has weakened its conversion effectiveness.
It mostly depends on whether we get in another war.