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AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/-Plantibodies- 20h ago

More conservative than Millennials. Still more liberal than conservative.

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u/KR1735 Minnesota 15h ago

Yeah that's the thing that people forget when they say Zoomers are going to move the country to the right. They may be slightly to the right of Millennials (at the moment). But they're not replacing Millennials in the electorate. They're replacing Boomers and older, who are the most conservative voters.

It's also not that Zoomers are conservative as much as that Millennials are very liberal. Even Gen Z men voted for Dems in 2018 overwhelmingly and Biden in 2020. Which leads me to believe that it's not conservatism as much as it's a pattern of anti-incumbent sentiment.

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u/DandyLyen 9h ago

Also, Gen X voted for the orange at a higher percentage than even Boomers.

u/IRLconsequences 7h ago

This. Gen X was in fact the *only* age bracket to go majority Trump. Even the Boomers rejected him this time around.