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DanTex

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Thu Jan 28, 2016, 01:15 PM Jan 2016

Millenial conservatives. Are there many of them? Are they into Trump/Cruz?

It's no secret that millenial liberals are feeling the Bern. I'm wondering, whether through polls or anecdotes, what is the situation with millenial conservatives? Are millenials leaning liberal more than other generations at that age? Are the millenial conservatives going for the Trump/Cruz stuff, and if not, where are their politics headed?

I'm in my late 30s now (how did that happen?), but when I was in my early 20s, like most generations, we were more liberal than our elders. But a "big thing" back then was libertarianism. Which sucked. Has that gone away, or faded? Or are there still 22-year-olds going around worshipping Milton Friedman and thinking they've found the secret key to everything?

If any young DUers feel like sharing what their right-wing peers are thinking, I'd be interested.

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Millenial conservatives. Are there many of them? Are they into Trump/Cruz? (Original Post) DanTex Jan 2016 OP
There are, they are part of the Young Republicans CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #1
 
1. There are, they are part of the Young Republicans
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 01:25 PM
Jan 2016

Many of them do support Trump and Cruz, especially from the red states.

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