Hillary Clinton is struggling. But millennials aren't to blame.

Roughly half of young voters aren't with her. But that doesn't mean they are with him.

Grinnell College students wait to attend a Hillary rally January 2016.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

The relatively recent fixation on name-brand generations — the Greatest/Silent Generation, the Baby Boomers, Generation X, the Millennials — is a convenient way of generalizing broad societal changes in an especially turbulent and fast-moving half century of American global dominance. But it's also reductive, a frequently lazy crutch designed to sow division and play up differences rather than emphasize our broad commonalities.

Personally, I blame the boomers for this.

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.