The elitist media is feeling cocky after the Democratic Party’s big midterm victory, as demonstrated by the satisfaction oozing off the front of Sunday’s New York Times, in a story from Times writer-at-large Sabrina Tavernise and polling editor Ruth Igielnik, “Younger Voters Powered A Democratic Landslide.”
Alienated by an older generation of politicians who felt out of touch and irrelevant to their lives, young voters revolted on Tuesday, powering the rout of President Trump’s Republican Party.
In swings of monumental proportion, young men aged 18 to 29 veered toward Democratic candidates by nearly 40 percentage points since 2024, according to preliminary results from Times Voter Trends. Young women, who were already inclined to support Democrats, swung by 27 points. In the Texas Senate race, men aged 18 to 44 swung nearly 50 points toward the Democrat, James Talarico.
“He is my age,” said Tristan Waumsley, 35, of Richmond, Texas, who voted straight Democratic at the state level for the first time in his life. “He sounded like I could have talked to him myself. He’s somebody normal, like me.”
Republicans have run Texas for years and not produced any real change in his life. With Mr. Talarico, he said, “maybe we can bring society forward, instead of regressing.”
If that weren’t enough self-serving liberal clichés, Tavernise and Igielnik joined in:
The voters swept out the stodgy and rejected wealthy middle-aged men like Rick Jackson, who ran for governor of Georgia, and Ken Paxton, who lost to Mr. Talarico in Texas.
And while the Democratic winners seem to be speaking their language, many voters under 45 — younger millennials and Gen Z-ers — were quick to say their support was not an ideological conversion, but granted temporarily to jump-start real change on the issues such as the cost of living, U.S. relations with Israel and the war in Iran.
Israel definitely received much unfavorable attention from Democrats during the campaign, and also in this story -- as did old people, who evidently just need to hurry up and die to make room for the new liberal breed of citizenry.
The discontent is global, fostering youth movements from Bangladesh and India to Serbia and France. Government resources have gone to Baby Boom retirees with free health care and subsidized retirements, while education has been stretched, health insurance costs have soared and job security has been hampered by older generations that will not get out of the way.
The Times tried to establish a pattern of rebellious young voters breaking away from their family’s religious and conservative ties, especially affection for the Jewish people of Israel, which the Times spent several paragraphs dwelling on.
Israel, perhaps more than any other subject, is bringing the generational divide into relief. In interviews, young people said they felt the issue was another reason they looked at the political class as one giant blob.
Izzi Eames, who works at a coffee shop in Portsmouth, N.H., grew up in a religious and conservative household.
“Older people on both sides say, ‘We’re going to visit Israel first when we are elected, it’s alliance with Israel no matter what,’” said Zaid Sibaai, 23, a recent college graduate working as a property manager in his hometown, Wichita, Kan. “It’s weird.”
Winning Michigan Senate Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s seething hostility toward Israel was whitewashed.
….Benjamin Altshuler, 36, a Reform rabbi living in West Bloomfield, Mich., said he struggled with the Senate race in his state, particularly around the issue of Israel.
“There were some aspects of El-Sayed’s candidacy that were not in line with my views, but I found many more favorable aspects compared with Mike Rogers,” he said, referring to Mr. El-Sayed’s Republican opponent.
Rabbi Altshuler said he watched old videos of Mr. El-Sayed to dig deeper on his views on Israel and decided to support him.
“I had to discuss it with my family and debate it with my community,” he said. “Ultimately the decision was mine. My desire for democratic values had to win out over this particular moment of geopolitics.”
"This particular moment" required toeing the party line, do a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Democrat defeated a generic Republican. But don’t expect to see that perspective expressed in a Times report.
