Yet another marvel is that young voters themselves don’t seem to care. How to explain the affinity of young voters for old socialists — even with so many newer models on the market, and when so many strategists counsel against voting left or gray (much less both)? The answer has to do, I think, with track records, radical critiques of American politics, generational alienation and a sense of political identity. Older politicians have more opportunities to build track records, and those might be more important to the young than to voters of other ideologies and age brackets. Strong left-leaning track records — shared by Sanders as well as Gravel — offer two major benefits.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2019 19:54 UTC