Leftist Generational Politics

Mackubin Thomas Owens, who is a sometime contributor to American Greatness, has written a terrific column at Providence Journal titled, “Celebrity Students Don’t Speak for All of Us” in which he gives young David Hogg his due, and how. More important, however, he makes the excellent point at the end that this leftist generational politics is nothing new. As a veteran of Vietnam, Mac can attest to the ways in which the Left used and abused ignorant (but certain!) young people for its purposes during the 1960s and why it is unfair, and counterproductive, to write off a generation because of it. Read the whole thing.