There’s nothing wrong with optimism, but rose colored glasses can distort your view. Of my 3 boys, two were always pretty conservative, and the third is a tad less so. They all laugh at how oppressively liberal the campuses were and how brain-washed a large portion of the students were.
Rose, heck, the author’s peering through Cabernet glasses.
The current younger generation is breathlessly ignorant. They don’t know liberty, they don’t know history, and they don’t know they don’t know, though they probably think Disney’s Pocahontas was the first to say that.