Sarah Matthews Has One Very Specific Dating Dealbreaker
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Valentine’s Day, Sarah Longwell joins Rachel Janfaza and Sarah Matthews to talk about the political dating divide shaping Gen Z. Why are so many women refusing to date Trump supporters? Are conservative men facing a numbers problem? And how did the Dobbs decision, social media, and financial anxiety turn romance into a culture war?
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| 0:38.9 | and it's Valentine's Day. It is a day of love. And so I thought we'd bring you a conversation |
| 0:45.3 | about, if not love, at least dating among Gen Z. I'm joined today by Bullwark contributors, |
| 0:50.9 | Rachel Jan Faza and Sarah Matthews. And I think they found the perfect person to |
| 0:56.6 | moderate this discussion. I think a 45-year-old lesbian is exactly what this needs. So last week on |
| 1:02.1 | the Focus Group podcast, Rachel and I talked about Gen Z Trump voters and how politics is affecting |
| 1:07.5 | the dating pool, especially for younger Trump voters. Rachel, you're out with a |
| 1:14.1 | Gen Z piece on dating that I don't fully understand. It's like magging. I don't know what these things |
| 1:18.4 | mean anymore. First of all, just to start, what is breadcrumming? Well, there's a lot of things that are |
| 1:24.0 | very confusing about Gen Z dating for everyone, including the people doing it. |
| 1:29.1 | Breadcrumming is when you're sending sporadic text messages that are like leaving little |
| 1:34.8 | trails of breadcrumbs behind you. There's not consistent or reliable communication. It's kind of |
| 1:40.4 | just like little bits and pieces every so often that can really be leading people on, |
| 1:46.4 | honestly, but you're not fully closing the book on the relationship altogether. |
| 1:51.5 | Is that a joke about leading people on with the breadcrumbing? Like, is that it's, it is, |
| 1:57.2 | so it's like stringing someone along. Is it yeah yeah you're like feeding them just enough |
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