In Philip Bump’s newest column for The Washington Publish, the commentator suggests it’s as a result of Trump “understands, if solely intuitively, how a lot nervousness his base feels about youthful People, together with these to whom they occur to be associated.”
The subtext to Trump’s feedback is that “loads of Trump supporters actually are cautious of their very own youngsters and grandchildren,” given the widening hole in assist for Republicans between older and youthful People, argued Bump.
The feedback “get at one thing deeper,” he mentioned. That’s “a way that youthful People would possibly ‘deservedly’ be unloved by their mother and father.”
“Possibly your youngsters are Democrats who voted for Joe Biden. Do you need to give them your farm?” Bump concluded. “The response right here is easy: These youngsters in all probability don’t need the farm anyway.”