The Jeb Bush and tea party divide
At the other end of the generational spectrum, elderly Americans are trending Republican but do not favor the cuts in Social Security and Medicare that many conservatives advocate. Younger party intellectuals such as Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam and Henry Olsen have advanced a populist agenda—focused more on working people than on “job creators”—that would use government to address the neglected needs of downscale Americans. Nor have conservative reformers gathered under the banner of the journal National Affairs shied away from government as an instrument of public purpose.
