The Republican Party’s struggles in appealing to young people have been well documented. And even those Millennials who do identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP are decidedly less conservative than older Republicans. CONT. Jocelyn Kiley & Michael Dimock, Pew Read more »
How Libertarians Snookered The New York Times Magazine
The premise underpinning Robert Draper’s New York Times Magazine cover story on the “Libertarian Moment” is that libertarians offer the cure for the Republican Party’s political difficulties. The story has lots of problems — a failure to account for recent history, in which the GOP already moved toward libertarianism after […] Read more »
No, America Is Not Turning Libertarian
Barack Obama’s first term provoked the Republican Party’s most libertarian moment since the Goldwater campaign, or perhaps even the advent of the New Deal. … The force of this moment has already receded, as most Republicans have subsequently recognized that their dalliance with Randian themes saddled them with a massive […] Read more »
The Coming Democratic Schism
There is a striking generational split in the Democratic electorate. This deepening division is apparent in a June Pew Research Center survey of more than 10,000 people, “Beyond Red vs. Blue.” The Pew survey points up the emergence of a cohort of younger voters who are loyal to the Democratic […] Read more »
Politically, 18-Year-Olds Look a Lot Like People in Their 20s
There is good reason to wonder whether today’s teenagers will lean as strongly Democratic as people in their 20s do. But it has been unclear from polling data so far whether the oldest teenagers — 18- and 19-year-olds — are indeed showing signs of being more Republican than the so-called […] Read more »
Reason-Rupe Poll: Millennials Think Government Is Inefficient, Abuses Its Power, and Supports Cronyism
A Reason-Rupe survey of 2,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 finds 66 percent of millennials believe government is inefficient and wasteful — a substantial increase since 2009, when just 42 percent of millennials said government was inefficient and wasteful. … The Reason-Rupe report finds this skepticism of […] Read more »