You’ve hit on something. I remember as a high school student in the late 70’s wondering what job I could get in such a horrific economy.
Then my first presidential vote went to RR. There was never so much optimism at the time after such a horrible decade of the 70’s. Especially Carter’s rein.
Now, I have the same feeling I had in the late 70’s for the past 6 years and there is really is no RR waiting in the wings. Some are close though. Times have changed and a different generation is running things now. We also have a horrendously uninformed electorate.
You and me both. Every day for the past 6 yrs. I’ve awoken with this strange deja-vu feeling that I was 13 again and that Jimmy Carter was about to appear on my television wearing a sweater.