Wolves in Youth’s Clothing

A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment.

Illustration by Richard Chance

Youth and hope have been linked in the human imagination since time immemorial. Now a new wave of Democratic challengers is capitalizing on that deep cultural association to bypass substantive politics entirely, hoping that the prospect of generational turnover will be enough to win over voters hungry for change. “What party will my generation inherit? […]

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