A famous, though apocryphal, Churchill quote is that "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
That's changing, because young people are now increasingly conservative—thank bloody god for that!
Here's Robby Soave explaining how the left lost a generation: "The Democratic Party on the other hand, has convinced many young males that it hates them."
[David] Shor walked [Ezra] Klein through the ramifications of his polling insights and voter analyses, which reveal a historically unprecedented rightward shift among young people, particularly young males. Trump won voters under the age of 26; white women, white men and black men in this demographic all leaned in Trump’s direction.
"the other piece of the puzzle: Democrats lack both an appealing messenger and an appealing message."
he Democratic Party must blame its cultural gatekeepers: progressive activists, elite media, and the campus radicals who conquered higher education over the course of the 2010s.
Young men who came of age in this environment were met with outright hostility by a brand of liberalism that has no place for them — that viewed their very existence as an act of violence. Boys were told to become more feminine to fit with the times and to make room for traditionally marginalized groups, even as their ranks among the educated elite began to plummet.
The MeToo movement, the rise of wokeness, and the enforcement of cancel culture identified some true bad actors, but also spiraled out of control, resulting in a general atmosphere of persecution against young men.
It's a wonderful thing to see.