By Ben Schreckinger @ Politico.com, Oct. 26

[....] In Houston, as well as Missoula and Mesa, Ariz., there were other new themes since 2016, and, of course new internet memes. Young men have become a more visible presence at the rallies, while liberal protesters have faded into the background — a sign, some Trump fans insisted, that the anti-Trump “resistance” is growing weaker, not stronger. But a prevailing feeling was not so much that Trump is surrounded by enemies and needs help. Instead, it was that president has already won [....]

Another new addition to the rally mix: more and better-organized groups of young men, who have become a more visible presence at recent events than they were in 2016. That shift mirrors polling, including by Reuters/Ipsos and Pew, which shows white male millennials breaking toward the Republican Party as issues of race and gender have come to dominate political discourse, especially on social media (partly thanks, of course, to Trump himself) [....]

More frat boy swagger was on display inside a hangar at a Missoula airport where Trump was scheduled to speak on Thursday [....] References to the “Q” conspiracy theory, which first took off this summer, were thick on the ground on T-shirts and bumper stickers [....] There were also references to “NPC,” an abbreviation for “non-playable character” and the latest pro-Trump internet meme to break through at the rallies [....]