OK Boomer: Neocons Used Landline Phones To Poll Young MAGA Voters

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New polling suggests Gen Z may be adopting the warmongering, interventionist attitude of those who came before. But the study’s own underlying data tells a more complicated story than its topline conclusion.

The polling spurred a Washington Post column by Fox News contributor and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident fellow Marc Thiessen titled “How young MAGA voters view America’s role in the world.” In the article, Thiessen argued, “Young MAGA voters don’t want America to pull back from the world; they want to lead it,” and “From Ukraine to Iran to Taiwan, Trump supporters under 30 favor engagement over isolation.”

Thiessen’s bottom line was even more sweeping: “The isolationists are out of step with Trump and the ‘America First’ movement writ large — and there is no help on the way from the Gen Z right.”

But the study rests on much shakier ground than Thiessen suggests.

The research, conducted by the Ronald Reagan Institute, found that a majority of self-identified MAGA voters under 30 largely agree with an interventionist approach to American foreign policy. The polling used a mix of live-cellular and landline phones, along with an oversample of younger MAGA voters.

Yes, landlines — in a poll about Gen Z.

That methodological choice alone raises obvious questions about who, exactly, the pollsters reached — and whether the sample reflects the young, online, post-2024 conservative coalition the report claims to understand.

The study also relies on “self-identified MAGA voters” without clearly defining what that label means, how respondents understood it, or whether it captures the broader universe of young voters who helped........

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