Conservatives can’t just lean on a debunked Churchill line, hoping millennials start leaning right

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

Published March 29, 2017 4:01am ET

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Conservatives can’t just lean on a debunked Churchill line, hoping millennials start leaning right — The millennial generation (roughly: those born in the 1980s and 1990s) and Generation X (the folks sandwiched between millennials and 1964's late Boomers) have gotten more liberal in the last decade. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) | Frank Franklin II

No, Winston Churchill did not say, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”

And good thing he didn’t, or he’d have been completely, terribly, utterly wrong.

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