What I learned when Turning Points USA came to my campus | Cas Mudde

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : For those raised in Republican households, which means most of the students at my university, this means that Trump and the far right are completely normal.
51% : While Turning Point was already supportive of Trump in 2018, it still had a largely independent program, ostensibly focused on traditional conservative values as small government and capitalism.
44% : These kids and young adults have been socialized in a world in which 1 Trump is a former president; 2 the Republican party is the party of Trump; and 3 the US Capitol got stormed by Trump sympathizers.
40% : Since Trump's shock 2016 win, the media has obsessed about "shy Trump supporters", that is, people who support Trump in the elections but do not say so in polls because of social desirability.
38% : In the past years, Kirk has not only fully embraced the authoritarian and nativist agenda of Trump, he and his organization have pivoted to full-on Christian nationalism.
34% : And, if this is true, there might still be hope, in the sense that the current polls are overrepresenting the Trump vote, because they are overcompensating for a dated phenomenon, the shy Trump voter, yet another victim of the normalization of Trump.

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