Young men who helped get Trump elected are ‘blackpilling’ out of politics
By Jeff Green, Bloomberg News DETROIT — “I’ve checked out.” That’s how Dallas Cruze sums up his political journey from willing Trump voter in 2016 to now, when he says voting seems pointless. Seated at a table in a board game store in suburban Detroit, the 34-year-old construction worker says that despite expecting to clear about $85,000 as a health and safety coordinator for construction sites, he will still be around $350 shy of paying his bills this month. A South Carolina resident, he’s in Michigan for work and will soon move to Mississippi for a job on a data center project. He ticks off grievances that include inflation, war in Iran and the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group. The final betrayal, he says, was Republicans’ inclination to protect the rich and powerful rather than prosecute those named in the records of disgraced financier Jeffrey…
