There are moments during an interview when you know you have just heard something important. This happened during a recent interview with a student at the University of Texas. My colleague, Kelsey, asked Brad* how he was feeling about the 2024 election results:
“Among my peer group, there's a saying, and the saying is, we're so back... And that's sort of the sentiment among a lot of the people in my peer group with the election results, where it's like, everybody's very satisfied, everybody's very pleased.”
“We’re so back.”
One of the most notable—if not necessarily surprising—outcomes of the 2024 election was the massive gender divide among voters under 30. Young men voted for Trump over Harris by a wide margin. Fifty-six percent of young men voted for Trump compared to only 41 percent of young women. This represents a remarkable swing from four years earlier when a majority of both young men (56 percent) and young women (65 percent) voted for Joe Biden.
In voting for Trump, many young m…
