The gender gap among young people was predictably vast. But the numbers still defied expectations, as the political scientist Melissa Deckman explainsA masculinity researcher on the Democrats’ ‘fatal miscalculation’Long before voting closed in the 2024 elections, pundits predicted that young Americans would be riven by a canyon-wide gender gap. Those predictions turned out to be correct.As a whole, Kamala Harris won voters between the ages of 18 and 29 by six points. But preliminary exit polling indicates that Donald Trump opened up a 16-point gender gap between young men and young women: 56% of men between the ages of 18 and 29 voted for Trump while just 40% of their female peers did so. Continue reading...