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Young men made a 'historic shift' to Trump and the right in the US election. Will it happen in Australia? (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Australia does mirror some of the gender gap trends, but with a bit of a twist," said Intifar Chowdhury, a lecturer in government at Flinders University.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I will never understand what part of Trump politics appeals to "young men" (or anyone).

The bloke is a loser, yet just keeps bluffing and grifting his way to the top. How is that a trait you want to emulate?

Even in the article the kid says:

"I was watching TV, and he just came out, and told everybody what was going wrong.

.... When did this happen? In which particular series of words that fell out of Trumps mouth during one of his insane ramblings did old mate get the impression this is what happened? It's like seeing a portent in your bowl of spaghettios or something. Just because a brief moment of chance brought something together that appeared to make sense on the surface doesn't mean you should ignore the 99% that doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

He's been around long enough such that young men have only ever known a world where Trump is the Republican nominee. Their world view is one where Trump is the normal.

Traditional conservative politicians are boring old men in suits. When they talk they put full grown adults to sleep. That was never appealing to young men barely able to sit still with raging hormones.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I think men are a lot more skeptical and black and white … if they think something feels wrong to them, they're just going to stick with the fact that it's wrong and not explore it," he said.

This guy just straight up admitted that the men on the right are going with their feelings and refusing to think or educate themselves.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Historic? Someone else beat us to that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth

We're just playing a rerun.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think young Australian men are allowed to vote for Donald.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They can however vote for Voldemort "Stop the boats" etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I don't know if Musk has enough money to make Dutton look competent..