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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Buncombe

How Gen-Z could save the Left (with thanks to Bernie and Trump)

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Two rival septuagenarians - Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders - unknowingly combined to help create the most progressive generation in modern American history, according to a new account.

Anger over the victory of Mr Trump in 2016, and the wild, enthusiastic support for Mr Sanders, now aged 80, in both that race and the one of 2020, helped in different ways to create a generation of young people - Generation Z - that was notably more progressive than their parents.

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