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Young people hate democracy, prefer Clinton to Trump

Young people hate democracy, prefer Clinton to Trump

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Carl Beijer
Aug 29, 2016
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Michael J. Totten, in World Affairs, makes a puzzling argument about kids these days that turns on two distinct claims:

1. “each generation currently alive is more authoritarian than older generations—with young Millenials the least democratic of all”

2. “Trumpism (and Bernie Sanders-ism) are but the [parochial] American symptoms of a global phenomenon: t…

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