Friday links! The kids are all terrifying edition

Young conservatives protest the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court in 2012.

Young conservatives protest the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court in 2012.

Is there any person more alarming than a college Republican? I understand 30 year-old home-buyers and child-rearers voting for whomever might give them a tax cut. I can even empathize with the Boomers’ urge to return America to the dimly remembered conditions of their childhoods. But what kind of 20 year-old is nostalgic for good old days he never experienced? Whose youthful idealism leads him to march for fewer restrictions on business and a return to traditional values? Today is Friday, and the kids have turned from their natural interest in drugs and butt stuff to embrace conservative politics. Won’t you marvel at this wasted youth these unwasted youths with me?

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