There have been some major shifts in US politics over the past few years. Once-sacrosanct ideas like free speech are now being dismissed as far-right. A desire for socialism is on the rise, especially among younger people. The broadly neoliberal vision that dominated the political scene from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama—the vision of an individualistic society with a fairly small safety net, in which individuals are more or less free to do and say as they please and reap the economic and social consequences—has lost its appeal. More and more Americans want to replace that rough-and-tumble social contract with something with a lot more protections.
So why do so many young people want to renegotiate the social contract?
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