Trump’s Gen Z masculine appeal has liberal parents clashing with conservative sons: report

Liberal parents are now the ones clashing with their conservative sons after the election, according to a New York Times article published Sunday.

“When Eli brought a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat home from college this summer, [Alex] Behri threw it in the corner of his bedroom. They argued about guns, immigration and abortion, struggling to do so without permanently damaging their relationship,” the article reads.

He continued, “‘facts don’t matter to you,’ [Alex] Behr wrote in a moment of frustration during a text exchange about Mr. Trump’s legal battles. i love you have a nice day'”

In a twist on the old dynamic of liberal kids fighting their conservative parents, Callie Holtermann wrote that some progressive moms are struggling with how to handle their sons voting for President Donald Trump.

“Some liberal parents aren’t so sure they should try to intervene,” she wrote. “Many people see their sons’ embrace of Mr. Trump as an expected act of rebellion, or a choice made by an independent young adult that they should respect. For others, it has felt like a painful rejection of the values ​​they have tried to instill in their children.”

“I had to do a lot of soul-searching and reading about it so I wouldn’t feel like I failed as a mother,” Alex Behr told the New York Times.

Although most young voters still voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump gained significant ground with the youth vote and won 53% of men aged 18-44, according to an analysis of Fox News voters.

Some parents pointed to social media and conservative online influencers for fostering more right-leaning political beliefs that seemed to have “asserted [their] fears and weaknesses like [they were] aging in [their] masculinity.”

“I was like, who’s got my son?” Melanie Morlan told the New York Times.

One young man, Max Sorokin, argued that the shift was fueled by the Democratic Party’s failure to appeal to his demographic.

“They didn’t even try to get the young people to sympathize with them,” he said. “They kind of ignored them.”

His father, Alexei, was critical of his son’s new views, though he described being more frustrated with some of the Democratic Party’s censorious behavior.

“I told my son, ‘Look, you’re privileged,'” Alexei Sorokin said. “You don’t feel fragile because you’re young, healthy, and white.”

Most parents ultimately chose to continue loving their sons, in direct contrast to the advice of liberal commentators.

“I always tell him, ‘I can worry about you and I can feel sad because I don’t think you understand some of the things that you’re probably going to have down the road,'” Melanie Morlan said. “But I’ll love you more when you’re in trouble, because it’s just politics.”