polling stats often indicate young republicans as being upset at the GOP and Trump, but most claim they will vote RW anyway and not vote in droves for Dems. I guess I'm trying to find a way for the younger voting republicans to realize that they are not alone in feeling antagonistic towards the GOP, that many are choosing not to vote and it's ok to think that way because their peers are already "there". It's not a difficult Social Psychology method to understand "group" mentality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/opinion/alabama-republicans-trump.html
Many once-Republican young people left the party, and many young people who might have considered themselves Republicans in the past are simply electing to stay independent. In the most recent Harvard Institute of Politics poll of Americans under 30, only 22 percent identified as Republican. The largest affiliation category was independent, at 39 percent. Research by NBC has confirmed that young voters increasingly see no need to identify with either party and are unsure if either one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/10/06/does-the-republican-party-really-have-a-young-person-problem/?utm_term=.a988b14f3aaf
Although Americans younger than 30 are less likely to identify as Republicans than are older people, the trend has been stable. The graph below, which draws on surveys from the American National Election Studies (ANES), shows that the gap between different age groups that emerged in the early 2000s has stabilized. There is no clear downward trend in Republican identification among young people.
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Moreover, there is little evidence that younger Republicans view the Democratic Party much more favorably than older Republicans do. When asked to rate the Democratic Party on a 0-100 scale, where 100 is the most favorable rating, Republicans ages 18-29 gave the Democrats an average rating of 29.5 in 2016, while Republicans ages 65 and older gave the Democrats a rating of 21.7. Over time, Republicans of all age groups have become less favorable to the Democratic Party while remaining consistently favorable to their own party.
Second, within the Republican Party, young people are not always more consistently liberal than older people. For example, although young people are often described as racially progressive, younger Republicans do not have different views of African Americans. The graph below shows trends in Republicans’ views on a scale ranging from 0-100, where 100 is the most favorable rating. Not only is there little change over time, but the views of all age groups are very similar. Trends in evaluations of Asian Americans and Hispanics tell a similar story.
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