Polls suggest Donald Trump can’t count on older voters this November. Here’s why.
were going to your high school prom in the spring of 1969, and you turned on the radio in your Mustang on the way to the school cafeteria — the #1 song in America?. Fast forward 55 years, and you’re 73, right about the median age for surviving Baby Boomers. Which means, as we start casting votes next month, you’re going to play ain the outcome of the coming election.
Some of this can be explained by simple self-interest. We older voters know that the last time around Trump made repeated efforts to cutBut I think deeper cultural forces are also at play — the muscle memory, the generational DNA, that was formed in that remarkable period of social, cultural, and political transformation that was the 1960s. It was the apex of the civil rights campaigns, the rise of the women’s movement, the first Earth Day.
But it’s not just the issues. To us, Trump seems … not normal. Even those our age who support him tend to say things like, “I like his policies but I wish he’d shut up.” That’s because if our politics may have been formed by the liberations of the 1960s and 1970s, our attitudes probably go back deeper than that. Remember — we were born under Truman and Eisenhower.he would have won a Nobel Peace Prize “for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don’t.
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