Gen Z Is Angsty: Here's Why

<div> <p>Young voters are one of many groups that pushed Trump back into the White House in 2024. Some <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/gen-z-red-wave/683212/">researchers saw this as a potentially massive realignment</a> with game-changing implications for our politics — but one year into Trump's second term, it doesn't seem like it. <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5759759-young-voters-trump-approval-rating-economy/">Trump is 34 points underwater according to the Cook Political Report's poll aggregator</a>. And those polls were taken before Trump launched a war with Iran, a decision <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5737627/iran-us-military-poll-trump-approval">most young people oppose.</a> …