Gift Article: Why 'MAGA' is so appealing to older Republicans, WAPO
https://wapo.st/3n5O5oDBy Philip Bump
March 14, 2023 at 13:31 ET
In the 2020 election, older Americans were more likely to support Donald Trump than Joe Biden — but not by as wide a margin as you might think. Pew Research Center’s validated assessment of turnout in that election indicates that Trump won people ages 65 and older by about four points. That’s a slight advantage, at best.
One reason we associate Republican politics with older Americans is simply that younger Americans are so much more Democratic. In 2020, voters under the age of 30 preferred Biden by 24 points. Between the parties themselves, there’s a difference: A higher density of the GOP is older than is the case with Democrats. About a third of the Republican Party is 65 or older.
Why this divide by age? In part because of demographics. Older Americans are less likely to be Black, Hispanic or Asian than younger Americans, all groups that vote more heavily Democratic. In fact, the gap between older and younger voters in presidential voting overlaps with the election of Barack Obama in 2008, a moment in which the confluence of demography and politics was acutely obvious.
In the 2016 election, Trump leveraged concerns among older Republicans about the changing demography of the United States to his benefit. His slogan — make America great again — was not specifically about race, but it incorporated a sense that America had declined as it also was less disproportionately focused on the needs of White Americans.
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but would never admit that's racism. 
Several years ago, after Obama had been elected, I listened in on a whine session about political correctness by a group of all white men, college educated homeowners, who were angry that they had to watch what they said in a corporate environment. They had other gripes, too, mostly quotas for hiring & how unfair that was to white men. 
Republicans hate the same people they do: people who need or want abortions and birth control, LGBTQ people and their pronouns, people of color and especially Mexicans, and affirmative action and those it is meant to provide equal opportunity to.
They're living on social security. And they REPEATEDLY vote for Republicans who promise to cut, gut, privatize and take it away from them...AND ME. Do they give a fuck?
NO. And there's something wrong with ME (a minority) if I take that personally. Nothing wrong with THEM. Just ME.
And they believe NOBODY should have to pay any taxes. ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE WITH ALL THE MONEY! 
Those Republican politicians hate the same people they do and also believe no one should have to pay taxes (especially the people with all the money), so they keep voting for them. NO MATTER WHAT. If Social Security and Medicare go away or get cut, they'll just blame Democrats who spend all their time TRYING TO SAVE IT!
NO SIGN OF INTELLIGENT LIFE or common damn sense ANYWHERE in any of it. 
But yea. I'M the problem. Pronouns are the problem. Affirmative action is the problem. Mexicans are the problem. Abortion and birth control and those who need these things are the problem.
NOT THEM. JUST THOSE OTHER PEOPLE.
ALWAYS those "other" people.
can't find it! But if you can, it's heartwrenching and heartwarming!
Ruhle rocks!
And so does Jinkx!! 
they are losing power as the overlords of everyone else and they are pissed about it!
Mofos...
