SURGE IN YOUNG REPUBLICANS


headlined by Trump, Tucker Carlson, and other leading social media talkers. Kirk also led TPUSA’s extremely effective get-out- the-vote operations in key swing states.


billion views; 3.4 million X followers » A “cusper” who straddles the millennial and Gen Z groups, Benny Johnson enjoys an epic following and has contributed to an impressive array of conservative channels, including appearances on Newsmax TV. In addition to The Benny Show podcast, YouTube hosts his Benny on the Block and Benny Brews channels. Johnson’s unapologetically sharp-elbowed, humorous takedowns and commentary cut through the media noise.


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of Mitch McConnell and tea- sipping Republicans who play by antiquated rules and are easily offended. “It’s time to get into the


modern era of the Donald Trumps and JD Vances — get in the middle of things, rough things up, and get things done,” says Towery.


Trump’s Authenticity Just as baby boomers who grew up in the 1960s carried the generational traumas of riots and war protests into future decades, today’s under-30 voters have experi- enced a series of gut-wrench- ing twists and turns. Among them: 9/11, the


Great Recession, the rise of Big Tech and digital media, and COVID-19. Throughout, the one con-


stant young voters saw was an elite political class that had trouble keeping its story straight every step of the way. The George W. Bush administration infamously assured Americans that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Perhaps


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there were . . . but they were never found. Obama received Politi-


Fact’s “Lie of the Year” award for his infamous canard, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.” Former House Speaker


Nancy Pelosi lectured Ameri- cans that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Not very reassuring. And Dr. Anthony “The


Science” Fauci promised Congress that the National Institutes of Health wasn’t funding gain-of-function research. That now appears to be a very misleading asser- tion, at best. Small wonder, then, that


Pew Research’s measure of public trust in government has plummeted to record lows in recent years. Less than 20% of U.S. adults be- lieve their government can be counted on to be trustworthy — a stunning collapse. Young people, after suffer-


ing two years of lockdowns followed by double-digit budget-busting inflation,


are really just looking for someone to give it to them straight. During the pandemic,


young people who had just launched their careers watched as their lives were turned upside down by a disease that, statistically speaking, posed a far smaller threat to them. Yet they were expected to


comply with masking and lockdowns, at the risk of being canceled or kicked off social media if they voiced a different view. For many young Ameri- cans, the coronavirus and all that preceded it were symp- toms of a different disease, an infection of credibility. They grew more skeptical of major institutions, as well as the politicians and techno- crats who ran them. Maggie Anders, the savvy host of the Undoctrination podcast, describes herself as a “cusper,” meaning she bridges both the millennial and Gen Z groups. She tells Newsmax that she sees a “growing animosity toward


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