Post Opinions columnist Charles Lane talked to two fellow columnists who almost certainly aren’t going to vote for the Republican nominee in 2024.
: You know, there’s one thing we know about this group of people: If they bind together, they certainly can stop a candidate that they dislike. Like, there’s one thing this group of people is really efficient at. It’s stopping upstarts with no political experience from taking the nomination. So that bodes really well, I think.
What a bleak and terrifying vision. But also, as a millennial, this is the kind of millennial who does run for president as a Republican in 2024: somebody who wants to have a revolution, a term Ramaswamy kept using. Especially given the fact that you have all these people wandering around in colonial attire calling for a new revolutionary moment outside in the 98-degree weather, I think you’re trying to evoke something stronger than just Reagan vibes, and that’s very ominous and I don’t like it.
But one of them was the idea that everyone’s going to have to take this civics test so we can have fewer voters. For this generation and the Gen Z folks, they had one question about climate change, which, especially if you were physically at the event, that felt like a very present question. And everyone was like, “We simply decline to answer this,” pretty much across the board. “We have nothing for Gen Z except maybe we will try to get fewer of you to vote.
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