Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| November 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n Young voters, including young men, led the November 4 election\u2019s stunning sweep by Democrats, not only voting far more progressive but sometimes (as in New York City) overruling more conservative older voters. Progressives were delighted.<\/p>\n Network exit polls<\/a>\u00a0show 78% of voters ages 18-29 voted for Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor; 60% of voters age 45 and older voted AGAINST him.<\/p>\n Similar margins reverberated across other elections. In New Jersey and Virginia statehouse races, seven in 10 under-30 voters went Democratic, compared to tossup margins among voters 45 and older. In California, a thundering 80% of 18-29 year-olds voted for the Democrats\u2019 our-turn-to-gerrymander countering Texas Republicans\u2019 we-started-it-gerrymander, heavier than older voters\u2019 \u201cyes\u201d voting (in today\u2019s California, even old White men are liberals.)<\/p>\n In California and New York City, young men and young Whites both voted more progressive than women over age 30, and much more than men over 30 (liberal\/left podcasters\u2019 agemates).<\/p>\n No matter. November 4 is already forgotten.<\/strong><\/p>\n I follow progressive podcasts daily, with mixed mental health consequences.<\/p>\n Right-wingers\u2019 hatreds toward minorities, immigrants, non-binaries, etc., are baseless bigotries, but at least berating their liberal opponents makes political sense. In baffling contrast,\u00a0progressives\u2019 hatred against young people<\/a>, their\u00a0natural allies<\/a>, is brainlessly factless and self-destructive.<\/p>\n The vilest epithets in the progressive vocabulary are not \u201cMAGA\u201d or \u201cfascist,\u201d but \u201cjuvenile,\u201d \u201cyoung,\u201d and \u201cteenage.\u201d Leftist youth-hating bashers include both those who seem to resent their own kids and those who cast their teenagers as unique Wunderkinder.<\/p>\n After November 4\u2019s stunning victories, it took just a week for progressives\u2019\u00a0neanderthal anti-youth rage<\/a>\u00a0to resurface.\u00a0Breaking Points<\/a>\u2019 Krystal Ball and her husband, Secular Talk\u2019s Kyle Kulinksi, couldn\u2019t restrain their animosity. \u201cYoung men\u201d ape groyper Nazi Nick Fuentes,\u00a0Ball recited<\/a>\u00a0for the millionth time, adding that \u201cyoung men\u201d were an important part of the Trump coalition.<\/p>\n No, they<\/em>\u00a0weren\u2019t<\/em>. Men under age 30 comprised a whopping 7% of Trump\u2019s total vote,\u00a0exit polls<\/a>\u00a0showed. Ball\u2019s own cohort, women age 30-44, gave Trump a much larger share.<\/p>\n Later on, Ball and cohost said Trump won \u201cyoung people.\u201d\u00a0No, he didn\u2019t<\/em>. He lost among voters under age 30 by a landslide 11 points.<\/p>\n Why do progressives keep hashing and rehashing and rerehashing such destructive falsehoods? Why do they keep insisting \u201cyoung men,\u201d \u201cyoung conservatives,\u201d \u201cyoung people,\u201d whatever stereotype du jour pops into their heads, are Nazi-Fuentes America Firsters? Why is the liberal\/left so obsessed with Fuentes (they complain about him nearly every damn day) when dozens of right-wing podcasters have far more older followers?<\/p>\n The only thing I can figure is that commentators from centrist Ezra Klein leftward to Ball and Kulinski would be delighted to hound young people into\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0supporting Nazis and MAGAs so they could smugly moralize against youthful stupidities and blame their favorite youth-corrupting villain, social media.<\/p>\n Conceit plays a big part. Progressives routinely pretend their older ages are more benignly liberal, tolerant, and disciplined than savage younger ones. Kulinski puffs up his Millennial generation as history\u2019s most enlightened and liberal.\u00a0No, they\u2019re not<\/em>. EVERY survey, poll, election, statistic, and science resoundingly shows Millennials are more conservative and worse-acting than Gen Z by every measure \u2013 crime, violence, shootings, overdoses, suicides, politics, etc.<\/p>\n For example, Kulinski\u2019s own demographic, men ages 30-44, supported Trump in 2024 by a 7-point margin, and men ages 45-64 by a 20-point rout. Yet, Kulinski and fellow podcasters incessantly blame the small fraction of young people who follow \u201cmanosphere\u201d sites for Trump\u2019s victory, not his own \u201c30-age men,\u201d \u201colder men,\u201d and \u201colder people\u201d demographics who actually were responsible.<\/p>\n Kulinski\u2019s hatred toward young people is so intense he actually spits. In his\u00a011\/11 podcast<\/a>, he raged against \u201ca lot of young men\u201d in \u201csixth grade\u201d he slanders as \u201clittle Andrew Tate demon wannabes treating women like shit\u201d who need a \u201cstern father figure in their life who can put them in their place and tell these fuckin\u2019 snot- little brat weasels, you\u2019re acting like a prick and no one likes you and is ever going to like you\u2026\u201d on and on, Kulinski\u2019s creepy recapitulation of MAGAs\u2019 Freudian daddyfyings of Trump. Put down the vape and take your own oft-dished advice, Kyle:\u00a0shut the eff up<\/em>.<\/p>\n Ephebiphobia is just another bigotry<\/strong><\/p>\n The unwritten liberal-left rule seems to be that older subgroups can be berated for\u00a0what they do<\/em>, but young people as an entire group deserve mass condemnation for\u00a0who they are<\/em>.<\/p>\n Progressives understand Sociology 1 fairness when applied to older groups with power: entire demographics are not responsible for the acts of their individuals or subgroups. All Jews are not to blame for what Israel does. All older people are not guilty for Trump\u2019s barbarities. Yet, the liberal-left suddenly abandons that principle when it comes to young people: all Gen Z must be held collectively guilty for one 20-age shooter, a Nazi groyper cult, a youthful cyberbully.<\/p>\n While leftist podcasters do berate commentators with older followings, the left\u2019s mass-villification against young people\u00a0as a demographic<\/em>\u00a0contrasts starkly with their nuanced\u00a0individualization<\/em>\u00a0of their own grownup ages. For example, leftists\u2019 rightly condemn elite middle-aged and elder luminaries, including President Trump, who persisted in close associations with financier Jeffrey Epstein long after his conviction as a pedophile trafficker and even as\u00a0they knew Epstein was continuing his sordid behaviors<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 in fact, many top-level leaders were directly involved in them. Yet, progressive anger at these \u201cdisgusting,\u201d \u201cdepraved\u201d elites has not devolved into blaming \u201colder men\u201d\u00a0as a demographic<\/em>.<\/p>\n Progressives\u2019 also bafflingly refuse to highlight stunningly positive facts about Generation Z, such as the 85% plummet in young-age crime, the 50% drop in youthful gun violence, or the facts that today, persons under 25 account for disproportionately tiny fractions of drug deaths, suicides, crime, violence, and terrible voting as they became America\u2019s most racially diverse, multicultural age.<\/p>\n The more the young affirm leftist values of safety and multiculture, the more the liberal-left rants against the young and insists the opposite is true. Kulinski\u2019s, Ball\u2019s, and other progressives\u2019 mass-blaming of \u201cmanosphere\u201d and Fuentes-enamored \u201cyoung men\u201d resembles MAGA\u2019s mass-blaming of \u201cantifa\u201d for everything they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n Kulinski cited (and re-cites)\u00a0one New Jersey gamer<\/a>\u00a0who had been suspended from school for child pornography, then stalked, swatted (harassed), and brutally murdered two teen girls as an all-American baseball-loving cherub whose motive (which authorities still have not announced) is entirely explained by the boy\u2019s fleeting mentions of rightist celebrities.<\/p>\n Where did progressives\u2019 hatred toward the young come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n The rising, irrational animosity of the liberal-left toward young people over the last half-century derives from two principal realities: (a) today\u2019s over-25 generations are seriously messed up (drugs, mental illness, crime, narcissism, family chaos, political phobias); and (b) young people are becoming steadily darker in skin color, driving racialized fears liberals are forbidden to express as such, leading to fixating on young age (i.e., \u201cyouth violence\u201d in politician\/media discourse means \u201ctoo many Black people on the street\u201d; \u201cjuvenile crime\u201d means \u201cBlack crime\u201d; etc.)<\/p>\n None of that is acknowledged. Breaking Points\u2019 sorta-conservative Emily Jankowski demeans the young as suffering \u201cundeveloped brains;\u201d sorta-conservative cohost Saager Enjeti berates them as criminals and online degenerates; definitely-leftist cohosts Ryan Grim and Ball dismiss the young as social-media-duped groypers; Kulinski\u00a0constantly<\/em>\u00a0sneers the young are \u201cblack-pill\u201d 4chan moron types; Hysteria\u2019s Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco demean young adults\u2019 \u201cundeveloped frontal lobes;\u201d Bitchuation Room\u2019s\u00a0Francesca Fiorentin<\/a>i berates the young as social-media brain-rotted Nihilistic Violent Extremists; on and on.<\/p>\n Is it really over-30 brains that are incapable of rationality?\u2026 the deterioration in aging progressives\u2019 thinking \u2013 the\u00a0loss of memory and learning genes<\/a>, the\u00a0decline in cognitive capacity<\/a>\u00a0that comes with uncritically indulging echo-chamber mindsets. I know I\u2019m losing it.<\/p>\n But even amid different, lesser unfairnesses, sarcastic critics of over-70 leaders as all brain dead concede individuality. Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, and other octogenarians retain cognitive marbles. Setting some upper \u201cage limit\u201d for public service to balance absurdly arbitrary younger-age limits is just more generalized bigotry.<\/p>\n Progressives have deteriorated alarmingly since 1936, when President Franklin Roosevelt gave\u00a0intellectually respectful<\/a>,\u00a0honest addresses<\/a>\u00a0to young people. Imagine if a politician today tossed consultants and big-donors aside and said the kind of things FDR said (worth quoting at length):<\/p>\nProgressives should thank whatever god(s) they praise that young voters ignore the destructive trashings liberal-left podcasters spew about them day after day.<\/h5>\n
\u201cYou who fill this great armory tonight represent a cross-section of millions of young people who have come to maturity since 1929. You are the symbol of young men and women living in every State of the Union, affiliated with every political party and belonging to every so-called stratum of society.<\/h5>\n
The world in which the millions of you have come of age is not the set old world of your fathers. Some of yesterday\u2019s certainties have vanished; many of yesterday\u2019s certainties are questioned. \u2026 The facts and needs of civilization have changed more greatly in this generation than in the century that preceded us.<\/h5>\n
I need not press that point with you. You are measuring the present state of the world out of your own experiences. You have felt the rough hand of the depression. You have walked the streets looking for jobs that never turned up. Out of that have come physical hardship, and, more serious, the scars of disillusionment.<\/h5>\n
The temper of our youth has become more restless, more critical, more challenging\u2026 wanting to know what we propose to do about a society that hurts so many of them\u2026 You have a right to ask these questions\u2014practical questions. No man who seeks to evade or to avoid deserves your confidence.<\/h5>\n
Many older people seem to take unmerited pride in the mere fact that they are adults. When youth come crashing in on them with enthusiasms and ideals, they put on their most patronizing smiles, and pat the young man or the young woman on the shoulder, and in a worldly wise sort of way send them out with what they call their blessing. But\u2014as every young person knows\u2014that is not a blessing; it is a cold shower. What they have really said to you is this: \u201cYou\u2019re young. Enjoy your enthusiasms and your ideals while you can. For when you grow up and get out in the world you will know better.\u201d<\/h5>\n
And the tragedy is that so many young people do just that: they do grow up and, growing up, they grow away from their enthusiasms and from their ideals. That is one reason why the world into which they go gets better so slowly.<\/h5>\n
\u2026 It is clear that many of the old answers are not the right answers. No answer, new or old, is fit for your thought unless it is framed in terms of what you face and what you desire, unless it carries some definite prospect of a practical down-to-earth solution of your problems.<\/h5>\n
\u2026 You are young enough in spirit to dream dreams and see visions\u2014dreams and visions about a greater and finer America that is to be; if you are young enough in spirit to believe that poverty can be greatly lessened; that the disgrace of involuntary unemployment can be wiped out; that class hatreds can be done away with; that peace at home and peace abroad can be maintained; and that one day a generation may possesses this land, blessed beyond anything we now know, blessed with those things\u2014material and spiritual\u2014that make man\u2019s life abundant. If that is the fashion of your dreaming then I say: \u201cHold fast to your dream. America needs it.\u201d<\/h5>\n