The big ideological gap is of the past seven years is between younger men and women, and the trend is remarkably consistent across disparate cultures
Social media influencer Andrew Tate, left, and his brother Tristan: a young man disposed to liking him may also be someone who can be persuaded to vote for the far right. Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA
These theories and the data behind them are endlessly fascinating. But there is at least one problem with relying on year of birth as a predictor of real-world behaviour: it tends to eclipse other shifts that may be more significant. The most important ideological gap that has emerged over the past seven years is not the one between the generations, or even between liberals and conservatives, rural and urban, “woke” and reactionary, but between younger men and younger women.
Some researchers have suggested that the #MeToo movement was a watershed moment when young men and women began to diverge politically. They point to surveys that show starkly different attitudes between young men and women towards individuals such as influencer Andrew Tate, or on feminism.
Likewise, a confluence of factors explains young women’s drift to the left. Research from the UK has found that, for decades, women were more likely to vote Conservative while men voted Labour in higher numbers. That, when young women began voting Labour. The cause, one school of thought goes, was Brexit – but this doesn’t explain whyand the US at the same time.
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