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New polling suggests Gen Z may be adopting the warmongering, interventionist attitude of those who came before. But the study\u2019s own underlying data tells a more complicated story than its topline conclusion.<\/p>\n

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The polling spurred a Washington Post\u00a0column by Fox News contributor and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident fellow Marc Thiessen titled \u201cHow young MAGA voters view America\u2019s role in the world.\u201d\u00a0In the article, Thiessen argued, \u201cYoung MAGA voters don\u2019t want America to pull back from the world; they want to lead it,\u201d and \u201cFrom Ukraine to Iran to Taiwan, Trump supporters under 30 favor engagement over isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thiessen\u2019s bottom line was even more sweeping: \u201cThe isolationists are out of step with Trump and the \u2018America First\u2019 movement writ large \u2014 and there is no help on the way from the Gen Z right.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the study rests on much shakier ground than Thiessen suggests.<\/p>\n

The research, conducted by the Ronald Reagan Institute, found that a majority of self-identified MAGA voters under 30 largely agree with an interventionist approach to American foreign policy. The polling used a mix of live-cellular and landline phones, along with an oversample of younger MAGA voters.<\/p>\n

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Yes, landlines \u2014 in a poll about Gen Z.<\/p>\n

That methodological choice alone raises obvious questions about who, exactly, the pollsters reached \u2014 and whether the sample reflects the young, online, post-2024 conservative coalition the report claims to understand.<\/p>\n

The study also relies on \u201cself-identified MAGA voters\u201d without clearly defining what that label means, how respondents understood it, or whether it captures the broader universe of young voters who helped power Republicans to victory in 2024.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMAGA\u201d itself has been observed to be a label largely adopted by older generations, not by young Americans. In addition, the sweeping GOP victories in 2024 were carried not on the shoulders of MAGA voters alone; instead, through effective messaging, Republicans assembled a coalition of libertarians, independents, \u201cMAHA\u201d loyalists, and everyday Americans who were not politically engaged and simply wanted lower prices, border security, and safer streets.<\/p>\n

Further, while the study boasts about dismantling the narrative that young conservatives are more isolationist, it only interviewed 331 \u201cMAGA Republicans under 30.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nAttendees wear MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats during an \"American Comeback Tour\" stop hosted by Turning Point USA in Burruss Hall at Virgina Tech university in Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)\n<\/div>\n

Attendees wear MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats during an \u201cAmerican Comeback Tour\u201d stop hosted by Turning Point USA in Burruss Hall at Virgina Tech university in Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A national GOP consultant, who requested anonymity to be able to speak freely about the survey\u2019s methodology, said the sample of young MAGA voters is not large enough to derive meaningful national insights.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis poll is an outlier from anything I\u2019ve seen in the last 18 months,\u201d the consultant told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n

The research stands in stark contrast to other polling conducted on this age group regarding foreign policy. A Pew Research poll from April of this year found that 57% of Republicans between the ages of 18 and 49 hold unfavorable views of Israel, in stark contrast to the Reagan Institute poll, which found that 63% of MAGA voters under 30 agreed with the notion that the security of Israel matters to the United States\u2019 security and prosperity.<\/p>\n

\u201cA New York Times poll, which is one of the best in the industry, found that among Republicans, those 18 to 44, who are Gen Z and Millennials, found overwhelming disapproval for the war in Iran, and generally want the party\u2019s future on foreign policy to change. The young Republicans want a change. That is why they voted for Trump in the first place.\u201d Ryan Girdusky, a conservative political consultant, told the Caller in response to the Reagan Institute findings.<\/p>\n

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Questionable methodology aside, Thiessen\u2019s Washington Post column and the Reagan Institute\u2019s survey press release conveniently excluded data points from the survey that did not support their message of an up-and-coming group of interventionist conservatives.<\/p>\n

The study asked respondents whether they agreed with the sentiment, \u201cThe U.S. is better served by withdrawing from international affairs and focusing more attention on problems here at home.\u201d Seventy-two percent\u00a0of \u201cMAGA\u201d respondents under 30 agreed with the statement, compared to 64 percent of all MAGA voters.<\/p>\n

MAGA respondents under 30 were also 17 points less likely than overall MAGA respondents to say that Israel\u2019s security matters to U.S. security and prosperity \u2014 63 percent compared to 80 percent \u2014 and 14 points less likely to say that Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon matters to U.S. security and prosperity \u2014 75 percent compared to 89 percent.<\/p>\n

Overall, voters under 30 were the least likely group to care about Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, U.S. involvement in NATO, or total regime change in Iran, and were the most likely group to support a negotiated settlement with Iran.<\/p>\n

Likewise, a much smaller majority of MAGA respondents under 30 agreed that U.S. involvement in international affairs is mostly beneficial. Sixty-two percent of MAGA respondents under 30 said U.S. involvement is mostly beneficial, compared to 81 percent of all MAGA respondents who said the same.<\/p>\n

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ANKARA, TURKEY \u2013 JULY 08: (L-R) Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, President of Turkey, Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, Donald Trump, President of the United States, and Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, during a \u201cfamily photo\u201d at Be\u015ftepe Presidential Compound during a welcome ceremony for the NATO Summit on July 08, 2026 in Ankara, Turkey. (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MAGA respondents under 30 were also 13 points less likely to support sending weapons to Israel \u2014 60 percent compared to 73 percent of overall MAGA voters.<\/p>\n

Taken together, the numbers tell a different story than the one highlighted by Thiessen and the Reagan Institute. Even within a poll framed around self-identified MAGA voters \u2014 and conducted using a methodology that raises serious questions about its ability to reach young conservatives \u2014 respondents under 30 were consistently less hawkish than MAGA voters overall.<\/p>\n

That does not prove young conservatives are monolithic isolationists. But it does undercut the claim that Gen Z MAGA voters are rushing to inherit the neoconservative foreign policy consensus.\u00a0(RELATED: ROOKE: The Hardcore NeoCon Whispering Sweet War Songs Into Trump\u2019s Ear)<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is, of course, a wide variety of thought among Republicans. But asserting that young MAGA voters are blindly echoing the sentiments of neocons past is unsupported by the survey\u2019s own data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study, like other neocon-led ventures, can insist that all we have to do to win the future is just dig up the body of Ronald Reagan \u2026 We\u2019ve had a policy of fight the world and bite the world that has been detrimental to the future generations of Americans, and they know it,\u201d Girdusky told the Caller.<\/p>\n

The Caller reached out to Thiessen to discuss his column but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n

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