November 07, 2026
Tim Pool on Losing America's Youth
Timothy Birdnow
Tim Pool nails it.
Speaking on Waters World, Pool told Jesse Waters:
"The younger generation,” Watters began. "You saw the numbers. Under 30 swung like 32 points left, which is insane, and this younger generation, it’s like as big as the baby boomers. You can’t just forget about ’em. How do Republicans — I can’t even believe I’m saying this — win back young men?”
"I’m not sure they do, and it’s worse than people realize,” Pool responded. "18- to 29-year-old young white men with no college degrees swung 40 points to the Democrats, and I don’t think it’s all because they’re socialists. I think it’s because many of them want to burn the Republican Party down.”
He continued, arguing that young voters disillusioned with Republicans feel that "largely, ‘You know what, you do not support America. You are basically just Democrats, as it is.'”
"Politics is not this world where every two to four years we try to convince this guy to switch from Democrat to Republican,” Pool said. "The young generation built these views over the past decade, when they were ten years old, when they were 14, 15, 16.”
And he's right; the younger generation sees the GOP as nothing but disingenuous power seekers who have no intention of doing what htey promise but ask every election cycle for your vote and your mothy. This is exactly what brought Bush Sr. down, and what made Bush Jr. largely impotent after a while (I'm not talking about his performance with his wife). The GOP has lost MORAL AUTHORITY. These young folks know the GOP has zero intentions of working their will, or even following the law.
In that regard it was Congress that lost the election, not Trump and Trumpism, which is what is being blamed and the GOP in Congress is going to move to the center big time now. {Susie Wiles pushed Trump to follow the old playbook this election too and it worked about as well as it always does.
Pool is absolutely right on all points. BTW I've corresponded with him in the past and he is as sharp at all times as he is here.
We must remember the admonitions of the Bible "righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach thereunto". What these young people wanted was not programs or even policies so much as genuineness. They wanted the party to promise and at least try to succeed. That was what was loved about Trump in the first place; he was a straight shooter. But he became wishy-washy, breaking campaign promises and then not talking about the real issues so that the GOP could win the election. It cost the election.
Trump needs to go back to basics - his basics. He needs to become the straight talking, straight shooting happy warrior he always was but which he turned from for political reasons. And the GOP should learn that honesty and sincerity go much farther than gimme programs and high-minded platitutdes.
Of course the GOP is going to learn the exact wrong lessons from this and will double down on the Ashley Wilkes-style of acting above the fray, losing with good form, etc. that always led to their defeat. Nobody likes a holier than thou creep (otherwise Mike Pence would be President).
We need a new party to draw in these folks. Sadly a new party won't solve the problem; politics draws the same types of people no matter the party. It's why the Populists failed, and why most third parties fail; they can't find people good at the nuts and bolts of politics even while they may find principled and straight talking people. In the end the way the sausage is made involves killing, butchering, and grinding. Few decent people can do both.
There really is no way to save America, but we have no reason to quit trying. Just know that the tide of history is against us. God is the only one who can save us, but we have rejected Him. It's no wonder America is fallen.
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