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.”
That trend may be returning, right now, as young voters, citing the moribund economy, are taking another look at…
