If this is a generational realignment on top of a party change at the top, it could run very deep.
I agree but am a bit hesitant, as I see you are, to proclaim a generational shift yet. As we both know, that has been said more than enough. The usual bit about economists who predicted the last 8 recessions out of 4, or some such.
I recall a speech Tom Hayden gave at Yale in the spring of 1970 observing that kids in junior high school were much more radical than he was. So watch out. Those kids, however, became the Reagan generation, by and large, when they grew up.
The Reagan people, I forget just which and when, regularly proclaimed that the next generation was more conservative, yada yada. Didn't happen. One almost gets to some sort of counter trend trend here. Which, once proclaimed, won't occur. |
