Timothy Birdnow

This reminds me of 1980. I remember the way Reagan won over the youths back then to the sorrow of their liberal hippie parents. Anyone remember the sitcom "Family Ties"? One of the main character was the son of two hippies who turned into a Reagan yuppie (Michael J. Fox). That was a trend back then as the youths soured on the beliefs of their revolutionary parents and the suffering it caused.

The Reagan Revolution was driven in no small part by such as these. Granted, I came from a conservative family - the original paleocons. But many children of hippies turned against the flower power stupidity and we had a generation of sane people (until Bush Sr. messed it all up and the new generation came on the scene believing the lies of Bill Clinton).

That such articles are being written suggests to me Mr. Trump's MAGA revolution may well be here to stay. The young are realizing there is a better way than what their parents and teachers taught them.

Youths are naturally rebellious and seek to shock and offend. Now it's cool to be MAGA because it sets the liberal older generation's teeth on edge and at the same time these young people are realizing just how ridiculous and idiotic their parents' views really were.

I've long thought that Trump's frank and iconoclastic approach would appeal to the youths but that it didn't solely because the young were not exposed to it. Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter broke the firewall and now these kids are seeing the Trump the rest of us have known and they are liking him. The fact the Establishment tried to destroy Trump and he fought back and won excites them even more; who doesn't love a survivor? It was why Bill Clinton left office with such high numbers.

And Trump speaks from the heart, and jokes and uses colloquialism, speaking off the cuff - like the rest of us. No ornate and eloquent speaches for him! He just tells it as he sees it. Politics has long become overmanaged and stage-produced. Trump is genuine.

The article states:

"Some liberal parents aren’t so sure they should try to intervene. Plenty see their sons’ embrace of Mr. Trump as an expected act of rebellion, or a choice made by an independent young adult that they should respect. For others, it has felt like a painful rejection of the values they have tried to instill in their children.
"I’ve had to do a lot of soul searching and reading about it to not feel like I’ve failed as a mom,” said Ms. Behr, who adopted Eli from China when he was 10 months old. In tearful therapy sessions, she has come to believe that pressuring her son to share her views was only making him more deeply entrenched."

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It IS a rejection of their values. Their values are shallow and self-serving and oppressive.

Schadenfreude may be bad but I am thoroughly enjoying it. Hearing these looney lefties melt down is music to my ears! I mean, it's not like they ever respected my opinions or my views on anything...

The article mentions how one kid turned against the leftist politics because of the BLM riots in Portland that his parents tacitly supported. He realized there was something very wrong with their beliefs.

And Barron Trump clued his dad into how to reach the youths. It worked beautifully and this kid, along with so many others, was willing to go where his parents never dreamed.

This is a revolution. No question.

The Left may be out of power for a long time if we don't screw this up. But they are indefatigable and we must be eternally vigilant.

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