Analysis: Why “MAGA” is so appealing to older Republicans
One reason we associate Republican politics with older Americans is simply that younger Americans are so much more Democratic. In 2020, voters under the age of 30 preferred Biden by 24 points. Between the parties themselves, there’s a difference: A higher density of the GOP is older than is the case with Democrats.Why this divide by age? In part because of demographics.
For example, most respondents said that America’s best days were behind us; that, you might say, America is no longer as great as it used to be. There’s not much difference in responses here, particularly when considering margins of error. It’s hard to answer the chicken-egg problem here. Hostility to changing views of homosexuality and transgender Americans is pervasive in right-wing media, but is that because it’s important to Republicans or do Republicans view it so negatively because of that media attention? Which came first, the Tucker Carlson monologue or the outrage?Part of it, certainly, is that these subjects trigger an opposition rooted in religious arguments that efforts to leverage racial insecurity don’t.
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