Why young men are turning on Trump

CBC English
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Nov 2, 2026
How do you guys feel when the Iran war started?
That was like the end of the road for me.
Really?
By 2025, you know, I was a bit pessimistic,
but I was still holding out.
Like you had the Epstein file like backtracked,
which really was like a huge, like, whoa moment to me.
When he talks about the trillions of,
like you're laughing, right?
He talked trillions of dollars coming into this country.
How do you feel?
Thank
I think it's funny because he talks about this golden age and the gas
prices are as high as they are under the Biden administration.
The prices of everything have gone up.
As frustration mounts, they say
their loyalty shouldn't be taken for granted.
We've grown up in this country that has.
gotten higher in social inequality,
that has become further from what we've known, that
you.
has become harder to live the kind of lives that our parents
and our grandparents lived.
And I think that people in Gen Z are not just going
to fall into this partisan divide that
previous generations have.
And while Trump energized the last campaign,
even as they help out the local Republican
candidate,
Trump is making it harder.
It's been one of our biggest problems
as student organizers over the past few months
is that we had trouble getting people engaged.
We've had trouble getting people to the door.
We've had trouble getting people
making phone calls in these races.
