Young Americans are the most optimistic about Donald Trump's presidency, reports a new CBS/YouGov poll. Sixty percent of Americans and 67 percent of those 18 to 29 years old say they're feeling good about the next four years, writes Sophie Clark on Newsweek
Even among the least optimistic, Americans 65 and older, 51 percent are positive.
Eight years ago, in January 2017, Trump's favorability rating among Americans ages 18 to 29 was 30 percent with 57 percent unfavorable. That's surged to 53 percent favorable, 42 percent unfavorable.
Voters' top priorities are the economy, fighting inflation and crime.
Overall, 55 percent of voters want to deport all illegal immigrants in the CBS/YouGov poll. In a New York Times poll, 87 percent supported deporting illegal aliens with a criminal record and 55 percent supported deporting all illegals. But most want to retain birthright citizenship.
Americans split evenly on whether to end efforts to increase racial diversity in schools and government agencies, the Times reports.
Telling young men that masculinity is "toxic" is not a winning strategy, Richard Reeves tells Erika Janes on SheKnows. Young men are moving to the right because they're "over" being told they're a problem, says Reeves, the author of the 2022 book, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It.
Reason's Liz Wolfe tweets: Democratic cultural messaging about masculinity and white original sin, "grouchiness" about the high cost of living and a desire to have the police show up when you're the victim of a crime have pushed young people to the right. People want "to be left alone by the hectoring scolds in the expert class."
Also, lots of people like to hear that "America is cool and should be beloved."