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Trump’s Missing Young People

Many Twitter accounts are documenting the underwhelming turnout for the latest Turning Point USA event. There are two explanations for this. Now that the grief for Charlie Kirk has been metabolized by his fans, there is less interest in the events without the star personality at the center of them. The other explanation I think is obvious: Trump is alienating the young Trumpers (the way Viktor Orbán alienated young rightists in Hungary), by not addressing their problems, and seeming to be preoccupied with foreign affairs projects that aren’t yielding anything for the economy. At one point in the last several months Trump said he wanted to see housing prices go up — which screams to voters that he’s doubling down on what Russ Greene called “total boomer luxury communism.”

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