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<em>Atlantic </em>Readers Assess the Impact of the Political Generation Gap

“The Democratic Party must learn from the mistakes of 1968 and be more open to diversified discourse if it wants to effectively use generational shifts to its advantage.”
Source: Associated Press

The Coming Generation War

Last week, Niall Ferguson and Eyck Freymann showed that the Democratic Party is rapidly becoming the party of the young—and that Republicans are leaning ever more heavily on retirees. Both parties, they argued, are already feeling the effects of this generation-based realignment.

“America’s political future,” Ferguson and Freymann wrote, “will be determined by the outcome of the generation war.”


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