Trumps millennial problem: The snowflakes are becoming a blizzard

[applegrove]

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/16/trumps-millennial-problem-the-snowflakes-are-becoming-a-blizzard/

by Sophia A. McClennan at Salon

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But here’s the catch. In 2015, millennials became the largest voting bloc in the nation, overtaking baby boomers. And, despite the hype, millennials are voting. Even more, they are protesting and organizing and making their voices heard. And one thing they are saying is that they don’t like the Trump administration.

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It isn’t news to say that the GOP has a millennial problem. In fact, millennials have long expressed disgust in the two-party system in general, but they have been especially wary of a Donald Trump administration. Leading up to the election, there was a sharp division between millennials of color and white millennials. Polls showed that 67 percent of black youth and 36 percent of Latino youth were “scared” of the possibility of a Trump presidency.

Despite the fact that the general myth is that millennials are lazy, selfish and unengaged, overall turnout in the 2016 election was slightly higher than 2012. And overall political engagement by millennials is higher than we have seen for young people in decades. Unsurprisingly, most of the millennials who voted for Trump were white. While Trump drew more millennials than had been expected, he still only won one-third of young voters.

But those few millennials who did support Trump are turning on him. A new study by GenForward shows that 57 percent of millennials see Trump’s presidency as illegitimate, including about three-quarters of blacks and large majorities of Latinos and Asians.



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[Eyeball_Kid]

1. White millennials must be dumber than rocks.

[Beartracks]

2. I wonder: for how many of them was Trump their First Vote?

You know, in college... stretching your wings... trying to grow up... idealistically bucking authority (e.g. the two-party system)... but lacking significant life experience.... Might've thought they were sticking their thumb in the eye of The Man, only to vote for someone who mirrored and amplified all the shit they thought was wrong with that system in the first place.

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