The Right’s Boomer/Zoomer Divide

Few recent elections have attracted more interest than Thomas Massie’s Republican primary loss to Ed Gallrein in Kentucky’s Fourth District. While the media focused on the feud between Massie and President Trump, they missed a more interesting story in the voting patterns, which revealed a sharp generational divide within the conservative coalition. If this growing divide is ignored, it could endanger the conservative movement—and even land Trump officials behind bars. In the final vote, Gallrein won by 10 points. Yet polling by Quantus Insights showed Massie carried every age cohort under 55 by double digits and held a vast 56-point...