Based on what I see in my own family this article is spot on. The Xers/Millenials in my family are all liberal and FEEL, the key word there, that republicans are just angry old, white males and want nothing to do with them. These kids all have god jobs, kids of their own and own houses. They are not living in someone’s basement. They all voted for Obama and are excited about electing the first woman president, who in their minds means Hillary.
We may not like it, but they have been well taught by the public schools and have it reinforced daily by the media.
If you look closely you’ll find that Xers/Millenials are Liberal on social tolerance issues, but also have an enormous distrust of big govenment authoritarianism.
IOW they’re more Libertarian than either Liberal or Conservative. But could be pushed (dare I say “nudged”?) into voting Conservative if the right kind of anti-statist appeal is made to them.
Which is where we need to go. Not by surrendering Conservative values and ideals but by winning the younger vote through appeals on issues we have much more common ground with them on than Liberals do.