Opinion | Did the young people really transformed sorceress?

But voting for Mr. Trump did not necessarily mean that these young people had become faithful sorceress. Responding aa survey I conducted last summer, a young West Coast woman, a Latin commuters student with many financial aid in a large non -selective public university, reported that although she was somehow liberal and worried about the environment, she was planning to launch her vote for Mr. Trump. His vote would be regarding the economy, he said – on how, under the Biden administration, people were unable to afford basic needs “.

Immigration was also an important question for some young Trump voters – but not, apparently, in the strongly partisan way it was important for older voters. Survey In September, from the Harvard policy institute, he discovered that over a third of Americans aged between 18 and 29 years old supported the mass deportation of immigrants who were in the country illegally – yet the Pew Research Center shown In December that only 10 percent of young adults said that the levels of legal Immigration should be reduced. This suggests that young people tended to be motivated more by economic concerns associated with large -scale and unregulated immigration than by nationalist or xenophobic appeals, pockets of Far right support Despite.

Then there is the question of young people who otherwise could vote for Mrs. Harris who abstained from the vote. Many moderates have seen it too progressive or “awakened”. Many young progressives have seen it not progressive enough, especially in the light of the military help of the Biden administration in Israel. To the extent that these people remained at home on the day of the elections, led to an increase in share of the vote of young adults for Mr. Trump, but not an increase in the number of young people who supported him.

I am a sociologist, not a political strategist, but I think there are lessons here for both democrats and republicans. Democrats, thinking they had the wind of history behind them, have often taken the support of young adults, focusing more on their efforts in bringing them to the polls than to earn their vote. However, long -term social change does not automatically translate into electoral success. While young people I am Becoming more socially progressive, the more the pocket voters are than the Democrats have made.

The Republicans, for their part, should follow the limits of their mandate by young Americans, as it is. The main base of the Gop remains the oldest whites who claim to no longer recognize the country that young people are inaugurating. The more the Trump administration is aimed at these voters by doubling prayer in public schools, for example, either pursuing a ban on national abortion or by imposing restrictions on LGBTQ+rights, the more you risk alienating the younger voters, more socially accepted that have oscillated towards Trump for Mr. Trump and for the larger Paychecks and the less expensive homes – especially if the economy.