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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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"We only ever speak to far right wing fascist members of gen Z and refuse to ever engage with non fascist gen Z, and it seems like being a fascist is being normalised amongst gen Z for some reason?!"

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

To be fair this specifically was about asking what gen z conservatives think

Of course they don't want to ask what gen z leftists think because they make a lot more sense and aren't going to glaze hitler. They instead will say shit like that CEO deserved it and we can't have that normalized.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

They know what they’re fucking doing.

They tried it with Mamdani and Bernie, succdems too far left for them. As media they knew what to do. The usual faulty advice of “Just ignore ’em, don’t feed the troll.” actually works here. Bernie had a good shot and was successfully ignored out of the room time and time again.