Millennials Abandon "Big Government" As They Age

Millennials Abandon "Big Government" As They Age by Emily Ekins, Foundation For Economic Education

"If You're Not a (Fiscal) Conservative By the Time You're 40..."

National exit polls show that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has captured many of the hearts and minds of the young Democratic electorate. Fully 70-80% of young Democrats, under the age of 30, are casting their ballots for Sanders over Hillary Clinton in state primaries and caucuses.

Many young people are drawn to Sanders’ vision of Democratic socialism. First, they don’t associate socialism with Soviet-style command and control economies or with long bread lines and political repression. Instead, millennials associate the basic concept of...