From the article: It’s easy to laugh at Republican millennial outreach efforts, because all millennial outreach efforts by institutions run by rich old people are invariably hilarious and insulting, but at least this one has a guy who does look like a normal young (college educated, white, well-off) urbanite. It’s not one of these guys. Scott Greenberg is saying strange, vague things that sound like they were written by someone trying to mask his actual agenda, but he is not openly condescending to young people (well, besides that stripey shirt) by referencing youth culture or awkwardly employing slang (or, god forbid, rapping). He’s a Republican because he believes that helping the rich get richer will somehow make gas prices fall, and while I do not expect that message to resonate with many other people in Greenberg’s demographic, it is at least a less hostile pitch than “I am a Republican because I think white men are a persecuted class” or “I am a Republican because the other guys are nerds and fags.” Unfortunately for the GOP, those more hostile sentiments are also the more common ones among Republicans of all ages, because the Republican economic platform pretty much only appeals to people with large investment portfolios. In other words, the GOP is screwed with youth voters not because of messaging problems, but because young Americans are less white, the white ones are less likely to harbor deep-seated racial resentments or hostility to gender equity, and all of them are much less likely to be rich.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:47:33 +0000
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