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Back in late 2024, when I was touring college campuses and interviewing students about the election, a topic rarely discussed in Washington kept popping up in my conversations. Young men were telling me, over and over again, that they were worried about being drafted into war. “I’m voting for Donald Trump,” Mike Mezza, a senior at Penn State, told me that November. “It’s the rising threat of rising global conflict. As somebody who is a military-age male, that thought is scary.”
