查看文章

This political climate persists today, although younger generations are trying to shift the narrative battlegrounds. As discussed in chapter 4, the dominance of the two-party system means that most of this conflict has been within those parties, both of which are still dominated by Boomers. The Trump era saw a massive increase in media and political attention to Millennial “culture war” issues around race and gender, but it is striking how little action around these topics is actually possible through federal legislation or even (outside of narrow immigration issues) executive action.

I believe that American politics will move beyond these symbolic issues and that the conflicts of the 2020s will explicitly be about the functioning of capitalism. Environmental issues, and especially human-caused climate change, are among the top issues that Millennials and Gen Z report facing their generation. This is intrinsically at odds with an …