Note from Jan 12, 2026

Why are young Americans rejecting the two major political parties?

A hypothesis:

The Republican Party doesn't reflect their values.

The Democratic Party doesn't meaningfully change anything: its preferred tools, supply-side handouts, predictably increase costs, invite regulatory capture and rent-seeking, and eventual political rollback. We find ourselves surviving from crisis to crisis because our ‘fixes’ are expensive, unstable stopgaps rather than durable, structural solutions.

apnews.com Young Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democratic and Republican parties, a new poll shows New polling from Gallup shows that Americans are increasingly identifying as political independents and rejecting the labels of the two major political parties.