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It's really two separate questions and the author got one of them spot-on. The good: yes, there is an entire cohort of young voters who weren't born when the Soviet Union fell. They don't get it. The Scandinavian countries staggering under immigration and debt are portrayed as paradises, and Venezuela never happened, or at least it can't happen here. Inequality of wealth is a cardinal sin. Racism is the ultimate sin. You can't talk youth out of certitude, you can only hope they grow out of it.

The bad: no, it isn't Bernie's rumpled appearance (that he can get away with because he's - gasp! - a male) that is putting him over Hillary. One's a septuagenarian crazy uncle who's promising them free money. The other is a nearly-septuagenarian totalitarian criminal who wants to control them. Guess who wins that one?

Socialism and its etymological offshoot "social justice" are systems consisting of theft and justification for theft. Political power confers the ability to commit theft without consequences - need I say more than "Hillary Clinton" to make that point? And so, with moral justification, however weak, and no consequences, we have the enshrinement of theft, a kleptocracy, a socialist paradise until the other people's money runs out. That, unfortunately, tends to be swift and irreversible. But that's for tomorrow, and tomorrow never comes.