Tag: Fluid

And not because it provides a good reason for the GOP to wave away its problems with the young; per the same poll, just 28 percent of Millennials back the GOP. President Trump is currently being criticized for suggesting that the Democratic party’s growing enthusiasm for de facto open borders is the product of its belief that more immigration will lead to more Democratic victories. Young people tend to be Democrats, and so do non-whites. This concept is all too often lost on the political press, which has a terrible habit of assuming that what is true now will be true forever more. Just two years sat between the financial meltdown of 2008 and 2010’s blowout GOP mid-term victory. People change — in the both the short and long terms. They’re so white they’re to blame for Trump. As voters get jobs, have kids, get married, and so forth, their views shift — sometimes dramatically. To assume that voters are impervious to personal experience — and to external political change — is to indulge in a peculiar form of identity politics, in which one’s worldview is held to be wholly contingent upon one’s immutable characteristics. In March, Dianne Feinstein wrote a Medium post imploring America to “Listen to Young People, Ban Assault Weapons,” even as polling showed that young people were the cohort least likely to support such a proposal.