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Why are Zoomers embracing extremist ideas?

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Conservatives have rightly denounced the extremist tendency among young progressives, but there’s a similar problem now evident on the Right.

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Conservatives have rightly denounced the extremist tendency among young progressives, but there’s a similar problem now evident on the Right.

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Conservatives have rightly denounced the extremist tendency among young progressives, but there’s a similar problem now evident on the Right. A new Manhattan Institute study of Generation-Z Republicans confirms this problem, with some embracing conspiracy theories, including antisemitic ones, that were once the domain of the conservative lunatic fringe.

The think tank put together a group of 20 young conservatives, mostly supporters of Trump. What it found was a group “marked by desensitization”. They viewed politics as a form of entertainment, more like a video game. To them, Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, despite their promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories, are not excluded from conservatism; even where their views are disavowed, they are treated as legitimate fixtures of the movement.

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