Protest this post at 3pm on the quad!!!

A lot of sharp young people have conservative gut instincts, and yet are reluctant to identify as right-of-center in light of what they see as conservative intolerance and the loathsome corruption of the GOP establishment. When framed as a call for moral revival, i.e., for stronger, self-governing communities and a more decent, humane culture, social conservatism has a wide appeal. But when it's seen as narrowly sectarian -- a chauvinism founded on status anxiety -- it does not.*

Also, in a perverted sort of 60s revivalism, young people rebel against our parent's conservatism. It doesn't matter if they're already liberal, we'll just go even further left. I blame Phish.