Gen Z conservatives are often portrayed by the media as a cohort radicalized by economic despair. They’re depicted as young people priced out of adulthood, lashing out through ideology. That’s the picture you get on cable news and on X, reinforced by both liberals and the oddball Right. But is it true?

Last week, we gathered 20 right-leaning Zoomers in a Nashville conference room for a Manhattan Institute focus group. They were mostly Trump voters, overwhelmingly Christian, a mix of college and non-college, ranging from late teens to twentysomethings edging into thirty.

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Anti-semitism in the west is indeed rising to levels unseen in our lifetimes but the only acceptable Discourse about it is Zionists accusing Palestine supporters of it and Palestine supporters rightly denying it, while ~50% of conservatives fall in love with Adolf Hitler

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Addie, an 18-year-old Hispanic Baptist Republican woman attending college, who considers herself “very right wing” but did not vote in the 2024 election. Addie walked out during the middle of the group.

lol, Latine Chud thought the Heirs of Hitler will see her as one of the good ones

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[–] Nomisslehere@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

The Star Wars Youtuber is the most frustrating one because he is one of the least ghoulish of the bunch, makes videos on a franchise about rebellion and imperialism, is uncomfortable with far right violence and rhetoric, but chooses to be conservative because of culture war bullshit.