If there’s one thing everyone knows about modern politics, it’s that the key to the next election and the longer-term trends beyond is the rising tide of younger voters. We’ve become used to the idea that the young—more progressive in their values and more Democratic in their voting habits—are the future, and the rest of us had just better adapt or (as we will soon enough) die. But in at least a strictly demographic, statistical sense, this is completely wrong. In political terms, the old are the future.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 24, 2019 16:50 UTC