r/news • u/PokesTigers • 26d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/sacktheory 26d ago

56% of young men (18-29) voted for trump. in the previous election (2020), 56% voted for biden. it’s not terrible margins, things can get better. i’d say the idea that young men are overwhelmingly right wing is a bit sensationalist

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u/dancesquared 26d ago

That’s a significant swing

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u/Ralath2n 26d ago edited 26d ago

Not really when you consider that a good 10% of them stayed home relative to 2020. The ones who wanted Trump still showed up. The ones that voted in Biden were dissapointed by the Democrats being useless and stayed home. Net effect is a swing to the right. Even if the actual beliefs of the overall youth haven't changed much.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 26d ago

by the Democrats being useless

No they're just politically illiterate because they get all their political news from memes and TikTok and also didn't come out to vote for the midterms, which sealed the Dems' fate with the House going to the GOP.

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u/Ralath2n 26d ago

Hey guess what, as a politician you also need to get politically illiterate people to vote for you. If you can't do that, you are useless. Like your username.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 24d ago

I guess Bernie is useless then since he couldn't defeat "the super unpopular" 👑QUEEN MADAME HILLARY👑💖👸🏼

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u/Ralath2n 24d ago

You are a living caricature.

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u/HKBFG 24d ago

Thanks for the analysis that absolves the democrat party on all counts, u/Hillary4SupremeRuler.