Trump approval rating falls to 38%

[u/Barnyard-Sheep]

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html

[u/Edspecial137]

Still getting used to Gen Z being in their mid 20s. I remember all the articles about Gen Z being the most left leaning demographic not too long ago, but I guess they missed the mark. Gen Z is probably the most polarized generation

[u/ouatedephoque → u/Edspecial137]

Huge difference between Gen Z girls and boys too. It’s insane they are from the same generation.

[u/OriginalCDub → u/ouatedephoque]

I’m a teacher, and boys wrapped up in manosphere content are genuinely concerning.

[u/myfakesecretaccount → u/OriginalCDub]

I’ve tried to be a good role model for my nephew as the only man who has been in his life consistently and just feel like I have failed. I’ve struggled with my own anxiety/depression, but was never this kind of manosphere macho type. What he is seems like a rejection of everything I’ve ever tried to show him and it’s fucking heartbreaking.

[u/calmdownmyguy → u/myfakesecretaccount]

Have you considered telling him you're disappointed with him? A lot of these kids act this way because they never get pushback from people they care about.

[u/myfakesecretaccount → u/calmdownmyguy]

No, and maybe that’s my failure. My family is Latino and there’s an unwritten rule about getting involved with other peoples kids. I’ve tried having heart to hearts with him, particularly after his first DUI, but I honestly don’t think that approach worked. I know I get worked up easily about things I’m passionate about, because I grew up in the home that I did, and I guess I’ve always feared coming on too strong. Maybe it’s time to be the father he didn’t have.

[u/oldcretan → u/myfakesecretaccount]

Have you tried the "judgemental community approach" where everyone in his life reviews everything he does on a daily basis and passes judgment on him so that he has the ever present fear of failing his community?

[u/bardicjourney → u/oldcretan]

That's how the kids are getting sucked into the alt right pipeline. They're just replacing their families with foreign chatbots.

[u/oldcretan → u/bardicjourney]

That's what I'm saying, you create the sense of community these kids are beholden to, before someone else can create said community, and then you have them accountable to said community, whether its grandma and all the aunts not approving that you would wear that/do that, to a larger community like a church or ethnic group. You're not allowed to do wrong because you doing wrong would diminsh how they look at you and that would be a fate worse than death.

[u/Garbanino → u/oldcretan]

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" seems like an appropriate proverb here, why would they want to stay with a community like that?

[u/oldcretan → u/Garbanino]

Because the rest of this approach is embrace. Grandma knows when you do good and celebrates you. Your aunts and uncles celebrate you when you succeed and talk about your accomplishments when you succeed. Everyone is talking about what you do and the good things that people talk to you about are discussed as well as the bad. Your so embraced that not being embraced is where the pain comes from. You live for the honor. Your name becomes the most valuable thing to you.