The Great Cynical Generation: Young Republicans And Young Democrats Are Aligning |
The generational mood of “Zoomers,” those born between roughly 1997 and 2012, is apathy.
The Manhattan Institute’s City Journal “gathered 20 right-leaning Zoomers in a Nashville conference room” for a focus group.
“Psychologically, this group was marked by desensitization, shaped less by fear than by boredom. They were not especially anxious about their own futures. They worried more about what AI and automation might do to other people than to themselves. Politics is entertainment: a stage for mockery, transgression, and performance, not moral seriousness or policy discipline.”