The key cut off date I like most to use is 1980. Not only is it a widely accepted generational marker but also because those born after that date never came under the smiling, persuasive, deadly personal influence of Ronald Reagan. Note Gen X voting patterns today.
This one coming is the last presidential election where those born before 1980 will outnumber eligible voters born since.
NC State House Speaker Tim Moore had an affair with a state employee (family values!); a state representative wanted an investigation, and has now been banished to the basement.
I’d like to point out to y’all that Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert are Millenials. There are more who check that box than some people seem to think.
Reagan didn’t impress me one bit. I’m a boomer and I vote progressive and so does my boomer husband.
You do have to love all the idiots that say all of our problems will be solved when the boomers to go away and the millennials can fix everything.
(Like I haven’t been hearing that ‘’‘idea’‘’ for all of my sixty years.)
As the saying goes, Be careful what you wish for…
Too true. Many, many, of the younger people around here adore trump. I will admit many older people adore him around here too, but here at least it’s a geopolitical issue not a generational one. YMMV
The thing I’ve learned in my long life: Don’t hope for the young generation to replace the bigoted thinking of the older. Because the young liberals turn into the old conservatives.
Remember: the hippies at Woodstock are today’s trumpers.
And in some cases, so are the performers!
I think some here have not read enough about the current youthful generations.
I’ll just make my usual comment that:
(a) I’ve been hearing that “the new generation will save us” since back when people older than I were the “new generation”
(b) and it’s not that the old hippies become today’s trumpers. No. It’s that the large bunch of people who were the old NON-hippies raised their children to follow in their footsteps.
to which I’ll now add,
(c) in any case, you can grow into an old crank on your own right w/o being a “trumper”. There is a diversity of old cranks.
It should be noted that a whole lot of the folks people think of when you say ‘hippies’ were not ‘boomers’, they were from the Silent Generation.
And all of us born in 1980s still don’t know where we belong.
I considered putting up a ‘reminder’ that not all people born after [some arbitrary date in the last 50ish years] are democrats.
But having said that, my gut still says that the up and coming generational shift we’re going to see over the next few decades will tilt the scales back to the left. And I say that personally knowing someone my age (43), and someone about 10 years younger than myself, that both went full MAGA right from the beginning. The one my age was, politically, way over there with the Religious Right, which I suspect plays into it. The other I didn’t know beforehand.
I was born in 1982, and I’ve given up trying to figure out what generation I belong to…based on most definitions, I’m a Millenial, which apparently means I’m supposed to be baffled by rotary phones and record players. 
(Both were present in my house growing up; I even had a little toy record player.)
Conservative assholes have finally realized why people won’t vote for them, so they resort to bait-and-switch. 
Tim Scott says words out loud, begins writing Democratic campaign ads. I sure his opinions on women, slavery, voting rights are similarly inspired.
Every accusation is a confession. This is a technically legal implementation of stealing an election by altering ballots.
He got 98% of the votes. I have to assume that’ll make him easier to recall since the people that would want him removed are the same people that voted for him in the first place.
Wait 'til repubs point out to this guy; “you ain’t white, mofo!”
Dan
98% of the vote sounds to me like he was running unopposed (at least, in the general). Was there a Democratic primary for the position?
Yes, I think there were one or two write ins that took about 600 votes away, but that was it. I assume it’s the same reason only only 45,000 people voted, in a city of over a million.