(LifeSiteNews) — Apparently the woke left has awakened a sleeping giant. Pew Research Center’s annual National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) reveals a dramatic shift in partisan identification among young U.S. adults in recent years.
Pew’s annual report shows a whopping 44-point move from Democrat to Republican among men aged 18-29 over the last two years. Women in that age cohort have also swung red by 14 points.
“Pew Research is showing some incredible partisan swings from 2023 to 2025,” noted political analyst, Christian Heiens, in a post on X that has drawn a lot of attention.
Heiens juxtaposed graphs plotting Pew research data in 2023 and 2025, showing the radical shift rightward among men ages 18-29 as well as those ages 30-49.
“Democrats. You are in danger,” warned Heiens in a subsequent post.
Democrats. You are in danger. pic.twitter.com/UbBMwRk1vL
— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) July 30, 2025
“The left has no idea the monster they’ve created with Gen Z men. Absolutely no idea,” wrote online commentator Robert Sterling, interpreting the Pew data displayed in the graphs.
“These guys spent their formative years navigating an unprecedented social experiment—COVID lockdowns; DEI struggle sessions; pronouns, micro-aggressions, land acknowledgements, intersectional justice—and, as a demographic, they simply snapped,” explained Sterling. “They stopped fearing cancellation, they realized black marks on social credit scores don’t leave permanent stains, and they started owning—rather than futilely trying to defend against—the accusations of villainy they had suffered since a young age.”
“It’s a wholesale reactionary movement against a political system—more than that, a culture at large—which, rightly or wrongly, they see as dedicated to their emasculation,” he continued. “A system that, in their view, creates little of value, affords them scant opportunity, celebrates that which is ugly and mediocre and profanes that which is sacred.”
“From the fires of this crucible is emerging the most right-wing generation I’ve ever seen,” said Sterling, who predicted that these young men will be tomorrow’s legislators and congressmen.
The left has no idea the monster they’ve created with Gen Z men. Absolutely no idea.
These guys spent their formative years navigating an unprecedented social experiment—COVID lockdowns; DEI struggle sessions; pronouns, micro-aggressions, land acknowledgements, intersectional… https://t.co/qQP4xIYEJT
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) July 31, 2025
The father of a 19-year-old, Andrew A. Abbott suggested that after observing his son and his friends, Sterling was “understating it.”
“Zero tolerance for the abstraction and fruity nonsense that defines the modern left,” said Abbott. “I’ve said often that the internet destroyed the Democrats capacity to enforce a narrative so they drift.”
“They told me I was evil because I was a White male all my life,” said X user Aiden, a young business consultant. “Guilty for everything beautiful about my heritage.”
“Democrats had EVERYTHING on their side: Mainstream media, Hollywood, music industry, all of social media, Silicon Valley, most celebrities and STILL messed it up with the new generation of voters,” explained another X user, summing up the Democrats demographic woes.
Earlier this year, Reuters reported that a large global survey showed a “surge in despair and disillusionment with established politics, particularly among young American men, the only U.S. population group to turn more conservative over the past decade.”
Not only are they becoming political conservatives, but young men in the U.S. are also leading a religious resurgence, halting a decades-long decline in church participation.
“Gen Z-ers — especially Gen Z men — are actually more likely to attend weekly religious services than millennials and even some younger Gen X-ers,” according to an Axios report in May.
“Within older generations, there’s a consistent gender gap among Christians, with women more likely to be religious than men,” noted Axios, but “within Gen Z, the gap has closed, as young men join the church and young women leave it.”
