Holy Cow, Young Conservatives Are NOT Okay
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Read JVL's Triad newsletter on the focus group: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/behold-the-focus-group-from-hell-city-journal-young-republicans
Read the original article on the focus group: https://www.city-journal.org/article/manhattan-institute-focus-group-gen-z-republicans
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller with the Bullwark here with my buddy, Jonathan V.Lass. |
| 0:03.3 | He writes a great newsletter every day. It's called The Triad. You can sign up for it at the Bullwark.com. And I would highly recommend you do so if you haven't already. And today's triad was a banger. Every once in a while, I feel like we need to do a video version for you, you know, non-readers out there for the video people. because this is too good to miss. |
| 0:22.2 | That headline is, |
| 0:23.2 | Behold, the focus group from hell. you know, non-readers out there for the video people, because this is too good to miss. |
| 0:22.2 | That headline is, Behold, the focus group from hell, JVL looks at this focus group put out |
| 0:27.4 | by the Manhattan Institute, which used to be kind of a normie Republican thing, but now's |
| 0:30.9 | gone full MAGA, where they talk to Gen Z Republicans and who boy, the Gen Z Republicans |
| 0:36.8 | are not all right. JVL, tell us a little bit about it. |
| 0:40.8 | It is wild because one, I mean, we'll get to the meta version of this in a second, but one of |
| 0:46.2 | the things I want you to think about is so if we had put out this focus group, everyone would |
| 0:52.1 | have said, of course, the anti-Trump bulwark tries to put out a focus |
| 0:56.8 | group with these insane Republicans trying to make them look bad. The Manhattan Institute thinks this is |
| 1:03.4 | all okay. Let me just, let me, I mean, let's just start with the Hitler stuff. Oh, great. Why not? |
| 1:09.2 | The moderator at one point asks the group, |
| 1:12.3 | what do you guys think about Hitler? Here's Ashley. I think he was a great leader, to be honest. |
| 1:17.2 | I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values. |
| 1:22.3 | One person, right? You can get one weirdo in every group. Here's Andrew. I'm in favor of a strong |
| 1:27.4 | executive. I think we favor of a strong executive. |
| 1:28.4 | I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don't think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously. Notice the qualifier mass genocide. But I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts. They're going to throw up little blockages against everything he's trying to do, |
| 1:46.3 | whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. |
| 1:48.5 | Some very pro, strong executive, strong leader, strong men. |
| 1:51.4 | I support national sovereignty. |
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