Young people are low information voters. Peer opinions,the coolness factor , the vibe, matter. Republicans used to be uncool because they were bossy evangelicals telling people how to live their lives or corrupt corporate republicans in the pay of big Business. Today its the democrats who are moralizing school marmish snowflakes. They do…
Young people are low information voters. Peer opinions,the coolness factor , the vibe, matter. Republicans used to be uncool because they were bossy evangelicals telling people how to live their lives or corrupt corporate republicans in the pay of big Business. Today its the democrats who are moralizing school marmish snowflakes. They don't feel "safe" if someone misgenders them. They can't claim to be less corrupt than republicans either.
Paradoxically, Trump has ended up achieving coolness. He's kind of retro with his floppy suits and long tie and Palm Beach look. He's badass, surviving an assassination attempt and defying ALL the mainstream media. And he's funny. ( This is not just my personal opinion, I have two daughters in their twenties and I talk to them and to their friends).
Indeed, Trump is a consumate performer, a real genuis for marketing himself. Not my cup of tea but one of the big mistakes the Democrats have been making over his entire enagement cycle is mistake the cultural preference of elite college professional class as The One Way, a odd kind of secular religious view for conversion in my mind.
"moralizing school marmish snowflakes. "
Yes - it's reall elite liberal arts college campus activist type mode that has been over-extended into Real World (Imean I went to one of these in the 80s, I recognise the pattern - and even then it was off-putting to the non-political parts of the student body [which I was part of then], although they'd get wins from the college adminstration afraid to confront them, my recollection was it was consistently win power by strong-arming power but lose sympathy of broader body by just relentless moralizing and purity testing - which obviously can work in certain circumstances but as equally is bad mass political strategy over a longer-term).
The recent NYT opinion column with Douhat interview of Andreessen gave insights - one need not agree with the guy to see the roots of a backlash rooted in overreach in moralizing snowflakism, where even in private company context a certain fraction coming from the elite liberal arts colleges bring just unbounded moralizing - the scandal I had in my own company where a new hire went bananas over a non-american HR person referencing Columbus Day (oh the horrors to refer to the murderous Columbus... as the actual Federal holiday name) to tell the international offices US office closed that day.
Young people are low information voters. Peer opinions,the coolness factor , the vibe, matter. Republicans used to be uncool because they were bossy evangelicals telling people how to live their lives or corrupt corporate republicans in the pay of big Business. Today its the democrats who are moralizing school marmish snowflakes. They don't feel "safe" if someone misgenders them. They can't claim to be less corrupt than republicans either.
Paradoxically, Trump has ended up achieving coolness. He's kind of retro with his floppy suits and long tie and Palm Beach look. He's badass, surviving an assassination attempt and defying ALL the mainstream media. And he's funny. ( This is not just my personal opinion, I have two daughters in their twenties and I talk to them and to their friends).
Indeed, Trump is a consumate performer, a real genuis for marketing himself. Not my cup of tea but one of the big mistakes the Democrats have been making over his entire enagement cycle is mistake the cultural preference of elite college professional class as The One Way, a odd kind of secular religious view for conversion in my mind.
"moralizing school marmish snowflakes. "
Yes - it's reall elite liberal arts college campus activist type mode that has been over-extended into Real World (Imean I went to one of these in the 80s, I recognise the pattern - and even then it was off-putting to the non-political parts of the student body [which I was part of then], although they'd get wins from the college adminstration afraid to confront them, my recollection was it was consistently win power by strong-arming power but lose sympathy of broader body by just relentless moralizing and purity testing - which obviously can work in certain circumstances but as equally is bad mass political strategy over a longer-term).
The recent NYT opinion column with Douhat interview of Andreessen gave insights - one need not agree with the guy to see the roots of a backlash rooted in overreach in moralizing snowflakism, where even in private company context a certain fraction coming from the elite liberal arts colleges bring just unbounded moralizing - the scandal I had in my own company where a new hire went bananas over a non-american HR person referencing Columbus Day (oh the horrors to refer to the murderous Columbus... as the actual Federal holiday name) to tell the international offices US office closed that day.