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Ukraine, which are getting quite fraught. And of course, Hamas has now announced that the Bebas family

is dead, which many people had suspected, but is going to be a sort of earth-shattering piece of

news over in Israel. But begin today with a fascinating realization by Derek Thompson over at the

Atlantic, talking about the radical

shift that has happened with young people in the United States as far as their voting patterns.

What he finds is that COVID and BLM basically shoved an entire generation of people to the right.

For decades, America's young voters have been deeply and famously progressive.

In 2008, a youthquake sent Barack Obama to the White

House. In 2016, voters ages 18 to 29 broke for Hillary Clinton by 18 points. In 2020, they voted for

Biden by 24 points. But in 2024, Donald Trump closed most of the gap, losing voters under 30 by a 51 to 47

margin. In one recent CBS poll, Americans under 30 weren't just evenly split between the parties.

They were even more pro-Trump than boomers over the age of 65.

So what exactly is happening?

Derek Thompson suggests that essentially this is a reaction to the government overreach during COVID,

that the bizarre institutional failures during COVID, that the bizarre institutional failures during

COVID ranging from the suggestion that you got to riot in the streets if you had the proper

political credentials and COVID wouldn't attack you to the idea that kids had to be locked

out of schools shoved an entire generation of young people to the right and radicalize them.

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