Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images The next president of the United States will probably be someone who’s over the age of 70. Donald Trump is 73; Joe Biden is 77. Bernie Sanders, who is currently leading the Democratic Party’s primary field, is 78. But young people are transforming American politics, driving substantive ideological trends in both major parties via the politicians they support. Sanders, for example, owes much of his leading status to the young.
A couple of things. Millennials obviously are much better with technology and are much more fluent in the language of social media than their boomer peers are. They definitely care way more about climate change in particular. And that’s true across the political spectrum. Republicans, too. The young Republicans I talked to told me that climate change is happening and the government has to do something about it.
We’re seeing an intergenerational fight within the Democratic Party that isn’t just about age, but about substantive differences in ideology and tactics. Do you think that a similar dynamic exists in the Republican Party right now? You mentioned that on morality issues, like same-sex marriage, there are some generational differences within the Republican Party. But race and immigration are issues that have been at the fore of the Trump presidency. Have you noticed similar generational differences there, or is it a bit more complicated?
How is social media changing the way this new generation of politicians are running for office right now?
CharlotteAlter If we have a future 🤷🏻♀️
CharlotteAlter AO who?
VikingBooks CharlotteAlter AOC is a nice house too bad nobody lives there....aka the lights are on but nobody’s home..
CharlotteAlter AOC is the flavor of the month. Not a real leader
CharlotteAlter Really?
BradleyWhitford CharlotteAlter Why not focus on the young leaders like Lauren Underwood that are quietly being much more successful?
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