Originally published at: The Youth Swing for Trump Was Always Overblown - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Young Voters Never Liked Trump All That Much As the dust settled in the days after the 2024 election, one of the narratives that quickly took shape was that young people had helped elect Donald Trump to a second term. As The Independent put it at the time, “Democrats may no longer be able to…
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Oh. Wow. First?
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Requisite Cats…
Enough to last all weekend
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Thanks for the assist.
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There are a lot of people who would like you to run for president in 2028," said Axelrod. “And there are others who would like you to run for the Senate.”
“In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat — it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”
“Probably the best answer anyone has given to this question … in a very very long time,” wrote former Biden administration press secretary and MS NOW host Jen Psaki.
“Well that’s one of the most compelling answers to that question I’ve ever heard,” wrote former Obama speechwriter and podcaster Jon Favreau.
“The reason Republicans are so freaked out by @AOC is because they know when normie Americans of any party hear her speak like this, they all agree with her,” wrote Zeteo News editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan.
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I’d say it is the way Donnie dances to The Village People’s “YMCA” that did him in with the youth vote. His dancing is almost as bad as Elaine Bennes’s on “Seinfeld.”
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I wouldn’t even call it dancing.
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Yes, I can. It’s been clear for a long time that we needed SCOTUS reform, and the only way we get that is if the people who want it actually show up and vote.
So yes, I can blame them for being disillusioned enough to become part of the math keeping the GOP and their corrupt Court in power. Be disillusioned! Be bitter and angry and spiteful! Then do something about it. Don’t just sit home bitching. If this is what happens when kids trade drinking hose water for Joe Rogan, we’re pretty solidly fucked.
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Ha! Love that reference.
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It was the orange clown face right?
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Heather and Paul’s hall pass
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The Democrats gave us Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Pablo Casals and the Republicans give us UFC, enough said.
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The 18 - 24 vote is probably going to be influenced by a few things that didn’t exist during the 2024 election campaign.
The kids are being affected by the student loan crisis and being told that they’re stuck with it. They’re being affected by not only the draft being more automated, but the prospect of being sent to a war they and their parents don’t believe in. They’re being affected by the affordability issue where, if they’re not going to college, jobs are hard to find. Graduates are having issues finding jobs (I have a kid in my church choir that graduated in December and he’s finding nothing but pizza delivery service jobs while he’s searching - anecdotal? Sure, but I don’t think this is unusual).
It is absolutely critical that the Dem candidates for all levels of office address these issues - we cannot run on hating the First Felon. We have to run on the clear corruption and the real issues that matter. No corporatists (which applies to California more than anything). The Dems need to take a page from Mamdani and find someone, anyone, that has any kind of charisma. I can’t think of a single possibility among the available creatures we have now.
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I sincerely don’t think AOC is the one.
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Zeus figured out he loved people but his so called master hated people and their rights.
Drove the poor puppy nuts he had to live with a asshole.
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The one for what? She’s picking up Bernie’s torch for universal health care and other changes, but came right out and said she doesn’t want to be president (at least not now.)
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That may not stop the party brass from trying to push her into it. The party brass has been tone deaf for some time. That’s another place where new blood is absolutely required.
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Considering how much the party brass doesn’t want to hear from her at all… if we get to that point it will likely mean she’s part of the party brass. And either way, I trust her to be sure enough in who she is to resist it.
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