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Sarah raised a very good point about how the younger voters have never really seen a "normal" US election and government in their adult lives. Some pundits persist in trying to portray this whole election and the 2020 election as just another election without recognizing the extremity that we are enmeshed in. That leads some young voters (and older ones too) to the idea that the whole thing is so broken that we need a bomb thrower to blow it up so we can start over.

I also note that the re-election campaign for Bush the Younger was seen as a watershed by some cultural conservative talkers...lots of talk about abortion back then but the first move in the legislature was to privatize Social Security.

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