
A college student who went all in for Donald Trump during the 2024 election is now having serious second thoughts about his vote. The young conservative has opened up about his disappointment with the current administration, highlighting what he sees as a massive gap between the bold promises of the campaign trail and the way the government is actually being run.
Thomas Maddox, a 22-year-old finance senior at the University of Cincinnati, laid out his frustrations in a recent opinion piece for the Cincinnati Enquirer on 12 March. He described a creeping sense of betrayal among young voters who genuinely thought the president would try to bring a divided country back together, rather than continue playing mainly to his most diehard supporters.