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Lots of genX Trump voters for a generation that identifies with "sneering distrust of everything". Or are we talking about Q-Anon-style "sneering distrust of everything (except this totally believable source that conveniently aligns with the far right)"?
Look up some exit polls/surveys, e.g. this one: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/
According to this, people born in the 60s (late boomers/early gen X) was the age cohort most likely to vote for Trump, and people born in the 70s and 80s still preferred Trump.
Though age cohort wasn't nearly as good as predicting the voting decision than other markers like urban/rural, black/non-black or atheist/christian.
It's strange because the vast majority of my GenX in all my circles are super left. But I'm a suburban guy with most of my acquaintances in high literacy areas.
Once you get outside of the suburbs, things change. I could see gen-X going full conspiracy theorist, then double-thinking as propaganda feeds them ideas.
Has anyone ever told you that “lots” isn’t “all”?
Nobody claimed it was every single gen x? A statement was made that a large portion (in this case a majority) of gen x voted in favour of Trump; which is backed up by exit polls
Do you understand aggregate descriptors? That it is quite typical and appropriate to talk about groups based on their average or median value, even if it is acknowledged that there is a proportion of exceptions?