DAVID MARCUS: Gen Z men are fed up with wokeism. They are ready to bring back Trump

Dirty Franks successful Philadelphia is nan champion barroom successful nan world, and it was location that I met 2 young men, some 29, who activity for nan Department of Defense arsenic engineers outfitting naval vessels. They are, arsenic nan kids say, beautiful based, aliases are judge of themselves.   

The brace of guys asked that I not usage their names aliases pictures, they wouldn’t moreover show maine who they are voting for, though 1 of them smiled and said, "You tin astir apt guess." And I could. 

They were some Zyn users (smoke-free nicotine that comes successful pouches) and I asked if they were utilizing it to discontinue smoking, aliases conscionable took it up. 

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"I fume now and then," 1 said. 

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks astatine a run municipality hallway astatine nan Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, successful Oaks, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"But different people’s cigarettes?" I suggested. 

"Yeah," they laughed. 

I was funny if they were successful a national arsenic DoD employees, "We person immoderate benignant of union," I was told. "Once a twelvemonth I person to ballot whether to support it, I ever ballot ‘no,’ but we ever support it." 

We talked astir nan authorities of nan country, nan things you are aliases aren't allowed aliases expected to say, and they don't attraction astir nan orthodoxy. 

The much I talked to these guys nan much I realized, they aren’t conscionable anti-woke, they are immune to it. As a Gen Xer, nan accusation of racism aliases bigotry still carries an a priori pang, not truthful for these gents, they conscionable don’t bargain it. 

A fewer hours before, I had met a 27-year-old pinch a grade from Drexel moving astatine a rule firm, and he exuded nan same, I don’t know, I want to telephone it nonchalance, but there’s an unfamiliar swagger to it.  

"One of them is gonna win, astatine slightest it will beryllium over," he told me, adding, "whatever." 

That last connection hung for illustration neon successful my mind, "whatever," nan anthem of my generation. 

Democratic statesmanlike candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN Presidential Town Hall astatine Sun Center Studios connected October 23, 2024, successful Aston, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

About a period ago, I started to announcement that men successful their 20s are way, measurement much unfastened to former President Donald Trump than their peers successful their 30s and 40s. It is simply a fascinating phenomenon, and I’m convinced that if Trump wins, it will beryllium connected nan backmost of national members and Gen Z men. 

But why is this happening? As nan begetter of a 14-year-old … boy? Teenager? What do I telephone him now? Anyway, I person immoderate insight.  

When he was 11, he sent a matter to maine and his mother, besides a journalist. It was a image of a public-school shape he had to capable retired asking if he was transgender.  

At 11 years old, I moreover sewage a column out of it, scooping his mom. 

The constituent is that America’s young men person been swimming successful a oversea of madness for their full lives, and they cognize it. And nan aforesaid group who inquire them, "Are you perfectly definite what your gender is?" are shocked to observe they don’t find Trump to beryllium peculiarly abnormal. 

That was nan revelation I had that night!  

As nan nighttime went easy along, 1 of nan guys astatine Franks yet said, "can I get a cigarette?" nan different chimed in, "me too." I was much than happy to oblige.  

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And location we were successful nan chilly Philadelphia autumn of reddish ceramic and moonlight, 3 men, smoking and talking astir life without filters aliases guilt. You could spot why Trump appeals to them. At nan extremity of nan day, he’s 1 of nan boys. 

That last connection hung for illustration neon successful my mind, "whatever," nan anthem of my generation. 

The adjacent morning, I was smoking a cigaret pinch a to-go java cup extracurricular my edifice and I fto retired a flimsy sigh. Because it’s Philly, immoderate feline noted, "Dude, you're nan Ben Affleck meme," which was a bully first laughter of nan day. 

Across nan street, I saw a young female connected a stoop, agelong achromatic hairsbreadth falling connected her knees, caput down, she looked sad and lost. I had an small heart to inquire if everything was OK, but I knew that would beryllium weird.  

A infinitesimal aliases 2 later, she stood up, looking good and happy, and I realized she had conscionable been looking astatine her phone. But it was astonishing really overmuch that airs mimicked nan forlorn, almost 19th Century painting, image of her I had imagined. 

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Republican Vice Presidential campaigner Sen. JD Vance, R-OH, delivers remarks during a run rally astatine 2300 Arena connected August 6, 2024, successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)

I person nary thought if she is voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. The numbers would surely propose it, but I’m beautiful judge nan guys I met nan erstwhile nighttime would beryllium canceling retired that vote. 

The early of our state is successful nan hands of these young men and women, who are very different from each other, but besides very sincere astir who they are, and a logic for hope. 

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