If Democrats Want To Keep Winning, They Need To Engage Millennials
Huff PostAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to supporters on Election Day in New York. Women and young people started the Women’s March and led organizations like Swing Left, Indivisible and Flippable to fill in where the Democratic National Committee was conspicuously absent. The most remarkable changes in human history have come when a generation of young people decides that the circumstances they inherited are no longer acceptable to them and therefore it’s upon them to change those circumstances. Huge wins by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley were propelled by young people, and my primary loss in New York’s 12th Congressional District saw a remarkable 797 percent increase in 18-to-35-year-old turnout compared with 2016. If the Democratic Party wants to hold its gains, it needs to believe in young people, give them the opportunity to lead, engage them where they are and focus on the significant intergenerational justice issues that matter most: climate change, mass incarceration, immigration, gun control, economic growth and inequality.
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