4 days ago - As Hodges worked the inauguration in January 2025, he surveyed the legions of happy people in MAGA hats. The scene befuddled him. “It was just very baffling to me, how we’d gotten to this point, after everything we’d been through, that people saw fit to vote for him again,” he said.

It is no secret that Donald Trump made significant inroads with young men in 2024. But there's a misconception from many Democrats about why young men have moved away from the party.

3 weeks ago - Trump’s economic agenda is the center of gravity for the MAGA coalition. It always has been. Immigration control, industrial revival, wage growth, and trade leverage are not side issues. They are the reason millions of non-left voters aligned with him in the first place.

December 14, 2025 - President Donald Trump’s approval rating remains steadily underwater among adults as he nears the end of his first year back in the White House, and he has lost some ground among his “Make America Great Again” base, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey.

November 18, 2025 - It may be a sign that the Make America Great Again movement is outgrowing the man who built it into a dominant political force. For years, MAGA was whatever Trump said it was. His followers shifted their positions, sometimes repeatedly, on issues like trade, foreign conflicts, and who counted as a political enemy based on what Trump told them was the MAGA position.

November 14, 2025 - Ten months into his second term, President Donald Trump is being challenged by the very base he prides himself on creating, and he finds himself besieged by an army of issues that could threaten his MAGA support and spell trouble for lawmakers who remain by his side.

1 week ago - The administration’s effort to immediately spin the narrative, and deflect the blame from the agents Trump has empowered to target communities across the country, is something the current administration has done repeatedly.

1 week ago - Pollster John Della Volpe, who surveyed 4,211 people ages 16 to 29 from October 28 to November 6 last year, traces much of the slide to economic disappointment—trade shocks, tariffs, and rising costs that failed to ease the financial strain young Americans were counting on him to address. “The big picture is that Trump was getting the benefit of the doubt in the first 100 days of his term,” Della Volpe told Puck.

February 1, 2025 - There is, however, a younger generation, who were children when Trump first ran for office, and whose political imaginations were ignited by his rise to power. They have no memories of belonging to—or being accepted by—any party or cultural milieu except Trump’s.

December 1, 2025 - Lemire compared Trump’s travel schedule this fall with his outings from the fall of his first year in office during his first term in 2017, and came away "surprised by the drop-off.”

1 month ago - Donald Trump interrupted prime time television on Wednesday evening to boast about all the things he claimed he's been doing for the country while heaping blame on his predecessor Joe Biden

December 16, 2025 - Members of his team have feuded over policy. And some, most notably Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, have cut loose from his orbit, accusing the president of losing touch with the Americans who gave him power.

4 days ago - Those reversals might have been predictable to people who had been paying close attention to policy. What has been more surprising is Trump’s alienation of voters who are sometimes described as being “anti-system”—people who distrust authority and often gravitate toward conspiracy theories.

December 9, 2025 - There’s a brewing anti-MAGA and America-First movement, rooted in frustration with ‘the establishment’ and its foreign policy. That rhetoric is most fervent online, where the young people who voted for Trump spend their time. And many of the loudest and well-followed supporters of Trump’s 2024 campaign have been just as vocal that they’re done with him (ex.

3 weeks ago - For nearly a decade, MAGA and Donald Trump were synonymous.

August 20, 2024 - Nick* is 21, and he would say that he holds traditional, conservative values – but he’s conflating those values with radical Maga ideas, which correlate the right with patriotism, manhood, intelligence, independence and honesty. I understand where my son’s vulnerabilities came from, and why this rightwing posturing was able to seep into him.

December 10, 2025 - Here are a few comebacks for your next family gathering.