(November 17, 2016 at 5:04 pm)Kosh Wrote: Their base is in a state of literal biological decay. I've looked at the demographics from this election. If only 18-29 yr olds had voted, Clinton would have won 538-0.
Extrapolate this 30-40 years down the line and republicans will be a fringe group searching for acceptance.
That depends... a lot of Americans will skew more and more conservative as they get older. It would not surprise me if a lot of the 40+ crowd that voted for Trump never dreamed of voting Republican when they were under 25.
However, a lot of the concerns that drive that shift (IMO) are economic. John Doe might be a radical lefty when the government is helping pay his way through college, but when he gets that first big paycheck and sees the list of deductions he suddenly becomes a fiscal hawk. On the other hand, I suspect that the progress being made in terms of social issues will continue. So the shift to the left will continue, but it will be much slower than current demographics would suggest.
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