In an article in the Opinion section of the Sunday New York Times, Brendan Nyhan bemoaned the absence of young people at the latest “No Kings” rally. He thought maybe it was because meaningful change seemed so unlikely to young Americans.
Both of the rallies I attended in Carbon County had a wide mixture of age groups, from people in their teens and twenties to people who were what I would consider elderly.
I’ve been to rallies in the Sixties and Seventies where almost everybody was under thirty. I’ve been to anti-pipeline rallies where almost everyone was over 50. The No Kings rallies, by contrast, contained a broad cross-section of Carbon County residents. We even had a guy in a MAGA hat. Great turnout.
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