How 1980s Yuppies gave us Donald Trump
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“It’s never as good as it looks. Or as bad as it seems.”
– Rich Gelfond
How 1980s Yuppies gave us Donald Trump
If you really want to understand Trump’s appeal, you need to go back a few decades to examine the social forces that shaped his rise as a real estate developer and remade American politics in the 1980s. Specifically, you need to wind back the tape to the 1984 Democratic primary, the almost-pulled-it-off candidacy of Colorado Senator Gary Hart and the emerging yuppie demographic that made up his base. They don’t remotely resemble the working-class base we associate with Trump today. But together, they helped shift the Democratic Party’s focus away from its labor coalition and toward the hyper-educated liberal voters it largely represents today, eventually creating an opening for Trump to cast Democrats as out-of-touch elites and draw the white working class away from them.
Playlist: The best of Cass Elliot (The Amplifier)
Though Elliot died at 32, she left behind a robust and eclectic body of work that is ripe for rediscovery. And since I did not have time to delve too deeply into her discography in my article, I figured an Amplifier playlist was in order.
Boomer mom shocks daughter with 1970s parenting detail
A daughter puts her boomer mom to the test on a 1970s parenting detail in a video, and finds the response hilarious, revealing 'I'm Dying’. Charlotte, 55, tells her mother to cast her mind back 50 years, and from behind the camera, she asks: "The year is 1972, it's 9 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” "No," Nina, 75, responds, leaving Charlotte, from California, in hysterics. Layered over the footage of Nina, the text says: "At least she's admits it!!! I'm dying," on the clip. According to nostalgic Remind Magazine, in the late 1960s, just before the 10 p.m. news on New York's FOX 5, a very similar stern public service announcement would ask: "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?"
Millennials’ midlife crisis looks different from their parents’ sports cars and mistresses—it’s a ‘crisis of purpose and engagement’
Buying sexy sports cars, changing hairstyles, and finding a mistress used to be the classic signs of a midlife crisis—at least for older generations. But millennials have it so bad in today’s economy that they think they’re too poor to allow themselves the breakdown their predecessors were mocked for, a new psychology study shows. Of more than 1,000 millennials who were surveyed, 81% of them reported they can’t afford to have a midlife crisis, which Thriving Center of Psychology defines as either dramatically gaining or losing weight, consuming more alcohol, attending therapy, changing appearances, or taking on a new hobby.
How FaceTime calls with mom became a tv hit
What started as a way for the filmmaker Josh Seftel and his mother, Pat, to stay in touch has become a popular feature on “CBS Sunday Morning.” At 87, Pat Seftel has a thought to share about almost everything.
On Tinder: “If you want to meet somebody for a real relationship, that’s not the way to do it.”
On artificial intelligence: “It could get out of control.”
On climate change: “This is destroying our planet.”
For more than 10 years, Ms. Seftel has shared those opinions, and others, on “CBS Sunday Morning,” appearing in semi-regular segments that have become popular with viewers, who look forward to her life advice and seasoned perspective on the modern world.
Boomer women buck video game trend
Baby boomers are playing video games at high rates, but the exact type of baby boomer glued to their game console might surprise you.
"What's been rewarding to see as we dig into the 2024 Essential Facts is that the stereotype of who plays video games doesn't match with reality, and the reality is, everyone plays," Aubrey Quinn, the SVP of Entertainment Software Association, told Newsweek. While 53 percent of video game players are male and only 46 percent identified as female in the Entertainment Software Association's new report, the gender trend flipped on its head for the older age cohorts.
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