Churchill was wrong. Ideology does not always shift with age

Published August 4, 2022 12:00am ET



[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight how the two youngest generations are more ideologically stable and centrist than previously thought and what this might mean for the country’s political unity.]

Folk wisdom often attributed to public figures like Winston Churchill has long proclaimed that citizens become more politically conservative with age. The problem with folk wisdom is that it is often incorrect, as are many impressions about the political world today thanks to many thinking that media sites like Twitter are representative of reality when they are simply not.

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