I hope you are correct.
I once thought surely our gen would be influenced by the great ‘80s and Reagan but seems like they are no better. I am talking voters, too.
Surely those of the generation who grew up aware of how Reagan differed from Carter (growing up with both in office) could be called Generation Reagan.
There were a bunch of angry leftists in the same generation who despised Reagan (and demonized him in all kinds of ways) but much of their hate was hysteria about things that never came to pass (Reagan is going to start WWIII, nuclear bombs detonating, etc. AIDS would be cured if ONLY Reagan had done something sooner, spent more money, etc...). The “homeless” problem is only ever noted by the media when Republicans are in office so expect it to return in 2017 or so...
Consider what people who grew up in the Depression were like when they were young adults (and, in fact, for the rest of their lives), and then consider the hundreds of billions of dollars of education and talent moldering in their Mom and Dad’s basements right now.
When they get out, and they will, I believe that they will be pretty hard-nosed conservative adults.