Posted on 08/20/2025 8:56:32 AM PDT by posterchild
“I said it before and I’ll say it again,” Rachel Janfaza ’20, an analyst focused on youth politics, wrote. “There really are two Gen Zs.” Her post included a graphic contrasting “Gen Z 1.0,” the liberal-leaning older cohort, with “Gen Z 2.0,” their younger, more conservative peers.
According to Janfaza, the pandemic marked a dividing line. Older Gen Zers were in college when it hit, able to quarantine with roommates and friends; younger ones were still in high school, isolated at home. The two cohorts also came of age in different political climates: Gen Z 1.0 came up during Trump’s first presidency, when resistance meant protesting at the Women’s March or walking out of school for climate action. Gen Z 2.0 grew up under President Joe Biden—disillusioned with institutions, skeptical of pandemic rules, and more likely to lean into contrarian conservatism.
Now, Gen Z 2.0 is filling college campuses around the country, including at Harvard. They’re revitalizing conservative institutions, shifting the boundaries of campus discourse, and getting ready to shape national politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at harvardmagazine.com ...
Prayers that they come into full alignment spiritually and politically for the good of America’s future.
Harvard reporting on itself that Harvard has “gone MAGA” should read with a lot of skepticism
Harvard Magazine is a separate organization distinct from Harvard University. They have some objectivity, though as mostly Harvard graduates, the writers may have some similar ideas as Official Harvard.
“more likely to lean into contrarian conservatism”
It’s anti-establishment.
Their Parents drove Accords & Outbacks like Grandpa, and voted for Obunghole and Biden.
Their older siblings ducked/covered and went along like sheep in the Good Times. Some got the last of $5-$10K/yr college, and Parents re-imagined a phony 1960’s they all missed out on.
They feel robbed. The world was turned to shiiiite because pf lazy, greedy, scared basetards.
They’ve had their lives turned to shiiite because of generations of spineless, weak leaders. Like the dregs of Grab Hags, nothing remains.
Young folks today are pissed.
A truly Muscular MAGA is in the offing.
And it’s gonna be phookin glorious!
Objectivity is at isolated points and is nowhere dense in the set of articles and comments.
I think “Generation Trump” are the kids currently in Junior and High School.
Just like Boomers. I have NOTHING in common with Hillary Clinton except we are both female.
Abit older than that. The class of ‘23 is very conservative, at least in Michigan.
Those weren’t the people chanting “F Joe Biden” at sporting events
I’ll believe it when I see it.
If you force-feed college kids at elite universities woke ideology that teaches self-hatred to the white and well-off and valorizes the black, brown, and indigent, it's inevitable that at least some of these kids will rebel against the force-feeding and see it for what it is: self-defeating hypocrisy that runs counter to their own interests.
How did anyone to the right of Stalin get into Harvard?
You’re a mathematician?
I used to talk like that. : )
A physcisist.
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