“Like Saturn,” Jacques Mallet du Pan famously said, “the Revolution devours its children.”

If there is a political revolution coming in the West, it may well be the old who are devoured. Take this month’s humiliation of British Prime Minister Theresa May. Many a liberal/leftist was giddy to learn that nearly 70 percent of eligible youngsters showed up to whack the Tories. “The young punish the old for Brexit,” liberal columnist Nick Cohen tweeted.

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