Mr Biden’s speech is his first major campaign event of the 2024 election season
President Joe Biden marked the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol by warning that the issue of American democracy will be “what the 2024 election is all about,” as he runs against former president Donald Trump once more.
Mr Biden, who spoke near the Valley Forge historical site where George Washington and the Continental Army were encamped during the winter of 1777 and 1778, told attendees that they were there “to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause?”
“This isn’t rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time,” he said.
Mr Biden said his speech, his first major event of the 2024 election season, was “deadly serious,” and about a topic that needed to be raised at the outset of his campaign.
That’s cool, but the data says 53% of boomers voted Trump last election. The majority of voters of younger generations voted Biden.
If it makes you feel better, 66% of the silent generation voted for Trump. Of course the logic that they are dying off applies to them even more so than with boomers.
And yes, this is all about the margins, but that’s just how elections go.
53% is not insignificant, but it’s not in “let’s generalize the generation” territory. (Not saying that you intended to do that, but that may be the appearance.)
Note this terrifying poll recently that shows Trump beating Biden 37% to 33% in under-35s: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/01/trump-biden-latino-voters-poll
It’s one poll and likely overstating Trump support in the general, but it’s absolutely shocking to me for Trump to be leading any poll any time in that age group. My assumptions would have been Biden up 20+ points for that demographic. But propaganda works, and people’s capacity to forget in 2024 seems rivaled only by their capacity to not pay attention in the first place. We need to seriously consider that reliable demographic assumptions are breaking down in the worst ways possible.
Just for a potential acquiesce, most young people conflate conservative/boomers to the mindset, not the age range. It doesn’t matter if genx is conservative, they’re boomers. It’s an unfortunate conflation but it’s the reality given that such a high percentage of people hold those politics.
It is funny, since the boomers were also the hippie flower generation. Which is why it’s sad that so many are also simping for fascism.