Gen X - America's right-wing bastion?

US President Donald Trump greeting supporters at a campaign event in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Sept 19, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS
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(NYTIMES) - If, as seems possible, Mr Joe Biden wins the United States presidency by peeling away older white voters from the Republican coalition, liberals won't just win the White House; they'll gain a new generational villain to bemoan.

Instead of sneers of "OK Boomer", there will be a realisation that the last bastion of conservatism in a leftwards-shifting country may soon lie with my own Generation X.

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