"From "How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right" by Derek Thompson for the Atlantic, Feb. 18:
Many people's political preferences solidify when they're in their teens and 20s; so do other tastes and behaviors, such as musical preferences and even spending habits. Most famously, so-called Depression babies, who grew up in the 1930s, saved more as adults, and there is some evidence that corporate managers born in the '30s were unusually disinclined to take on loans. Perhaps the 18-to-25-year-old cohort whose youths were thrown into upheaval by COVID will adopt a set of sociopolitical assumptions that form a new sort of ideology that doesn't quite have a name yet. . . .
New ideologies are messy to describe and messier still to name. But in a few years, what we've grown accustomed to calling Generation Z may reveal itself to contain a subgroup: Generation C, COVID-affected and, for now, strikingly conservative. For this micro-generation of young people in the United States and throughout the West, social media has served as a crucible where several trends have fused together: declining trust in political and scientific authorities, anger about the excesses of feminism and social justice, and a preference for rightward politics." [1]
1. Notable & Quotable: Covid. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 21 Feb 2025: A15.
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