“These studies reveal an interesting fault line. While most women get their news from TikTok, most young men get their news from YouTube, X, and Reddit.” You can do all the postmortems in the world but in the end it comes down to that. We are living in separate political realities. Over half of Trump voters say they don’t follow political news at all. It’s hard to say if that’s just because they don’t see Joe Rogan and Youtube as political news or if they genuinely just don’t consume any political news at all. It’s not unlikely that some people just follow what people in their families, workplaces or communities say as much as anything. Those who identify as evangelical Christian probably get a lot of political information from their churches, even though it’s not explicitly identified as that. All it takes is one Fox News junkie or a Rogan fan in any group to influence several people in their orbit.