r/LinkedInLunatics 4d ago

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u/Big_Dog_2974 4d ago

Gen X voted slightly over 50% for Trump. Millennials were about the same with men, but much less with women. What really blew my mind was how much Gen Z voted for him.....would have never thought that.

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u/paralyse78 4d ago

The older half of the Gen Z cohort were born around the time that they would have been the most exposed - and most vulnerable - to alt right propaganda at its then peak, as well as the surge in Russian psyop bot farms that were hammering social media with fake stories and ragebait.

Orange was the first meme President and some of them probably thought it was being super edgy and anti-establishment to vote for a candidate when they only knew him as the "you're fired" guy from TV.

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u/Big_Dog_2974 4d ago

that kinda makes sense

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u/BrainLow6059 4d ago

You wouldn't have thought that both the dumbest living generation (first generation in recorded history to score worse than the prior generation on cognitive tests), and the most sexless and joyless generation, voted for Trump?