A new poll says that the majority of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 view Donald Trump as an “illegitimate president,”
according to TheHill.com.
“The
GenForward poll reported by
The Associated Press found that 57 percent of young adults see Trump’s presidency as illegitimate, including three-quarters of black respondents and large majorities of Latinos and Asians,” wrote Brooke Seipel on Saturday.
The poll showed that 53 percent of white young American adults feel that Trump occupies the Oval Office legitimately, but 55 percent of those respondents rated his job performance negatively.
A meager 22 percent of young adults approve of the president’s job performance with 62 percent disapproving.
Majority of young adults in US view Trump’s presidency as ‘illegitimate’: poll
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Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
One reason for that --- or perhaps a related indicator ---- I heard this from a language expert interview talking about the nature of profanity....
As generational mores change with the times, so does language. Young adults coming up now are not offended by the sexual- and bodily-function profanities of the past like
shit and
****. Those have become casual. What they
are offended by ---- because every group in its time needs a separate set of powerful words --- is ethnic slurs. Words that attempt to divide and disempower those other races and colors and nationalities that they count among their peers as friends.
Given the nature of Rump's rhetoric, it's natural both that young adults would find it disgusting, and that Rump's audience is concentrated on old farts. All fits together.
Perfect example ---
this thread where Rump refers to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" because she's got Native American heritage. It's always the Indian Senator, the Mexican Judge, this color, that religion, the other nationality, even the disabled and veterans. Rump is a one-man dividing machine. The younger set is not at all cool with that. They see right through it.