Bros And Cons
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week, Matt and Brian take stock of Donald Trump’s late pitch to young male voters, who are significantly more Republican curious than young men were in the Bush and Obama years:
* Are young men really drifting in a more conservative direction? Or are they mostly attracted to Trump’s teflon libertinism?
* Is America swinging back to a pre-Bush norm when partisanship wasn’t so stratified by age?
* Will these voters turn out? Are they even registered?
Then, behind the paywall, Matt and Brian debate the theoretical merits of pandering to young voters with policy appeals. Are Trump’s weird promises around vaping and cryptocurrency really the kind of thing that can mobilize voters without partisan commitments or apolitical young people? Does the fact that he fully reversed himself, in exchange for money, to adopt these new positions undermine the appeal at all? And to what extent is the Harris campaign also microtargeting young voters?
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Further reading:
* Brian on the deficiencies of Trump’s pandering, young-male voter Hail Mary.
* Matt on whether the influx of women into the workforce (and, in parallel, the Democratic Party) help explain new norms around sensitivity (or young men’s new openness to MAGA).
* Jessica Valenti on how Kamala Harris doesn’t just defend abortion but has started to normalize it.
* The Harvard Institute of Politics fall youth poll.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And this is why I don't think that the Trump gambit is likely to work is that like you might get a lot more young men to say, |
| 0:06.6 | yo, Trump is so based. But then they're just going to be stoned on their fucking couch on election day. You know. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | This week Donald Trump is making an all-in-bet on his ability to juice turnout among what may be the smallest and least reliable segment of the electorate, which is young men. |
| 0:32.0 | So the question is can he realign the electorate, which is young men. |
| 0:32.8 | So the question is, can he realign the electorate, even at the margins, enough to outwit |
| 0:37.7 | pollsters and their models of the electorate and all of the election forecasts to make himself the favorite. |
| 0:44.9 | Do young men really care that much about things like vaping to change their voting patterns? |
| 0:51.6 | And where do abortion rights fit into this analysis? |
| 0:55.3 | Matt and I will run through the whole strategy and what we think of it. |
| 0:58.3 | So I hope you enjoy the conversation and if you want to hear the whole thing you can |
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| 1:04.2 | FM. |
| 1:05.2 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Politics Podcast. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm Matthew Glicias. So Matt, you're a medium-aged |
| 1:16.2 | I guess recently young-aged man. Are Donald Trump's flip-flops on vaping and cryptocurrency and Tik-talk? |
| 1:25.0 | Making you rethink all your priorities are you like full magga now? |
| 1:28.0 | Uh, yes. No, I mean, okay. |
| 1:31.0 | I think we should explain a little bit what we are talking about. |
| 1:34.6 | No, I just want a hot start. |
| 1:36.0 | So no, okay, when you and I were young and men, I mean we were young men in the |
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