WTH Are Young Gen Z Voters Turning Conservative? The Yale Youth Poll’s Milan Singh Explains

Gen Z may not be the liberal base of support many on the left
hoped they would be. Today, there is a growing split between
voters under 30, with 22-29 year olds favoring Democrats by 6.4
points and 18-21 year olds favoring Republicans by almost 12
points. As America’s youngest voters are growing up in the age of
COVID lockdowns, social media, and cancel culture, conservative
and MAGA ideology is emerging as the new counter-culture, giving
young men in particular an opportunity to escape the world around
them. How will the youngest voter cohort change the bases of both
parties? And how will young voters change as they grow older?


Milan Singh is the founder and Director of the Yale Youth Poll.
Originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is a junior in
Pierson majoring in Economics. He has previously worked as a
researcher at Slow Boring; a data science fellow at Decision Desk
HQ; and social policy intern at the Niskanen Center. This past
summer, he worked as a consultant for Blueprint and WelcomePAC.
Outside of the classroom, he is one of the Opinion Editors for
the Yale Daily News.


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