Losing The Youth

The Republican Party has lost the youth.

Pollster Frank Luntz hashed out the party’s millennial problem during a session at the RNC earlier this week. “We have lost [millennials],” he told delegates on Tuesday. “It’s not like we are losing. We have lost that generation.”

Luntz blamed far-left universities for indoctrinating young people.

The police have been doing a far better job and have been doing it for 40+ years.

Dan Baum:

I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Baum also wrote in his book, “Smoke and Mirrors”: “Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue…that we couldn’t resist it.” – John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.

So a war on the youth, which the Republicans assumed from the Progressives, has had no effect Mr. Luntz? May I suggest another fifth of something highly alcoholic to drown your sorrows?