This whole thing, the original article and this ‘vexed’ thing, looks, feels, and smells of an apologist’s thesis why the resr of America needs ‘to understand the misguided souls’, when it is THEY that are mucking up the nation for the rest of us.
Remember, THEY are of the ‘Occupy ‘x’ mindset.
Remember the anti-Vietnam crowd wasn't all of us either. But those anti-Vietnam/anti-Americans are in the WH now.
The author's point (what I took from it) is that Millennials, who are very convinced that they're right (but really aren't so sure and starting to "believe with their lying eyes"), can be turned away from where the Left has directed them.