A new generation of liberal leaders has emerged, exemplified by the (likely) next mayor of New York City, 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani. Unlike the old breed of liberals, Mamdani’s sect differs from its predecessors in five noteworthy ways:
- They suck at slapping backs, in-person networking, and retail politics, but they’re absolutely dynamite on social media. (Fun fact: Mamdani not only launched his mayoral campaign on social media, but he also used social media to meet his wife. They met on Hinge, a dating app that’s also responsible for the lovely union between Pete Buttigieg and his hubby, Chasten Glezman Buttigieg.)
- They passionately hate Israel. Whereas 71% of Republicans support Israel’s war in Gaza, only 8% of Democrats agree. That’s a 63% swing — significantly larger than the 44% partisan divide over abortion. (Which means support for Israel has officially supplanted abortion as the #1 telltale sign of party affiliation.)
- They’re unapologetically socialist and/or communist. They don’t hide their affinity for Marxist tropes; they fully embrace ‘em. In their minds, capitalism is the enemy — and full-throated socialism is the solution. Their goals include the “elimination” of all billionaires and the radical redistribution of wealth.
- From Zohran Mamdani through Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), they almost always hail from the lap of luxury, wealth, and privilege. (Credit to @bennyjohnson for his delightful exposé of Crockett’s hoity-toity background.) These are rich kids who cosplay as poor people! If we dub it “stolen valor” when someone fakes their military service, we desperately need a term for these rich, entitled creeps who fake their poverty. (I vote for “stolen lunchpail.”)
- They’re the least patriotic Americans in history. Whereas 92% of Republicans are “extremely” or “very proud” of being an American, only 36% of Democrats agree — a 56-point difference! And, what do you know, younger Democrats are the least patriotic of all. According to Gallup:
As might be expected given the partisan trends, Democrats are largely responsible for declining U.S. pride within each generation. Comparing data from the past 10 years with the prior 15 years, pride among Democrats in each birth cohort has declined by at least 10 points, with larger drops of 21 points for Gen X Democrats and 32 points for millennial Democrats. [emphasis added]
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There are legitimate issues bedeviling young people, mostly relating to affordability. After half a decade of runaway inflation, the loss of our manufacturing base, and the influx of 12 to 20 million illegals — who all had to live, work, and get healthcare somewhere — young Americans are being priced out of their hometowns.
They can’t afford to buy a house, start a family, or realize the American Dream.
President Trump’s solution was to revamp the global economy, stop subsidizing our foreign rivals, put American workers first, and bring high-paying jobs back to our country. If Trump succeeds, it will mark the greatest economic shift since FDR — and a new era of peace, prosperity, and financial opportunity.
But that’s not what the Mamdani sect wants.
In their minds, young Americans are suffering because rich, privileged Baby Boomers own all the good stuff — and they’re not dying quickly enough. They believe we’ve entered something called “late stage capitalism,” and the schism between the haves and the have-nots has destroyed America. Our best days are behind us.
This is class envy on steroids.
But despite all the real, actual problems that young people face, it’s also true that today’s youngsters are more coddled, privileged, and pampered than any other generation. And by a wide margin, too.
You kiddin’ me?! The Greatest Generation — which overcame the Great Depression, Nazism, Imperial Japan, World War II, and the Cold War — would’ve sold their grandma to the Cossacks for the “problems” today’s kids gotta deal with:
“Wah! I was misgendered! That’s a hate crime!”
“Wah! I’m not allowed to compete against girls!”
“Wah! My boss yelled at me!”
“Wah! I want more money!”
“Wah! Nobody liked my TikTok video!”
Suck it up, buttercup. The solution isn’t scrapping the system that gave rise to an American juggernaut and enriched billions of people globally; it’s to stop being such a weak, immature, Marxist pansy.
In other words: Don’t be a W.I.M.P.
Today’s kids aren’t being drafted into combat. No one's shipping them to Vietnam-style overseas hellholes on their 18th birthday. Lots of ‘em didn’t even have to go to school every day: Between COVID-era restrictions and “remote learning,” young Americans were given every single accommodation imaginable.
No generation was given more!
Yet no generation has complained as much. They’re weak-willed, emotionally immature, Marxist pansies.
In 1970, Sen. Roman Hruska (R-Neb.) urged his colleagues to confirm President Nixon’s nomination of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Responding to criticisms that Carswell was a mediocre judge, Sen. Hruska argued that it shouldn’t matter: “So what if he is mediocre? There are lots of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they?”
Sadly, the same could be said of Generation: W.I.M.P.
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