How Covid Pushed a Generation to the Right

How COVID-19 pushed young people to the right

The NewsYoung people in the US typically swing progressive. But in 2024 the demographic was almost evenly split between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and Europe has seen a similar rightward shift.One possible explanation is a global protest vote against inflation: Many incumbents were voted out in 2024 as prices soared. But Derek Thompson argued in The Atlantic that the pandemic also reduced physical-world socialization, pushing young men, in part…

Is This What Caused Young People to Move Toward the Right?

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.

How Covid Pushed a Generation to the Right

Derek Thompson: "Pandemics might not initially seem to cash out in any particular political direction. After all, in the spring of 2020, one possible implication of the pandemic seemed to be that it would unite people behind a vision of collective sacrifice—or, at least, collective appreciation fo