Donald Trump Making Inroads With Young Voters—Economy a Key Issue

The great Winston Churchill was reputed to have observed, “If a man at twenty is not a liberal, then he has no heart. If a man at forty is not a conservative, then he has no brain.” That’s an apocryphal statement, of course, but that doesn’t mean it’s untrue. Younger people tend to skew more politically to the left than their elders – at least, if you look at the broad strokes. But there is also a political pendulum that swings back and forth; as recently as the ’80s, there was a trend wherein it was “hip” for young people with hippie-Boomer parents (full disclosure – not all Boomers were hippies; me, for example) to rebel by taking on the conservative jacket-and-tie businessman mantle, as portrayed by Michael J. Fox’s Alex Keaton in the ’80′s TV show “Family Ties.”