{"id":1741196,"date":"2022-11-16T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741196"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:32:37","slug":"democrats-abused-gen-z-with-covid-insanity-for-years-and-gop-leaders-refused-to-campaign-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-abused-gen-z-with-covid-insanity-for-years-and-gop-leaders-refused-to-campaign-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Abused Gen Z With Covid Insanity For Years And GOP Leaders Refused To Campaign on It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-abused-gen-z-with-covid-insanity-for-years-and-gop-leaders-refused-to-campaign-on-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741196&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u201cred wave\u201d that never was is in part thanks to Gen Z voters, who turned out in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/2022-election-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record numbers<\/a>\u00a0in the midterms and voted overwhelmingly Democrat. The Gen Z results are devastating and cost Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/e2-80-9cwe-e2-80-99ve-grown-up-in-unprecedented-circumstances-from-economic-turmoil-to-the-pandemic-to-climate-change-to-school-shootings-e2-80-9d\/ar-AA140uGx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several key races<\/a>, but they aren\u2019t surprising considering Republican leadership had no strategy to win over young voters. Sen. Mitch McConnell, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Tom Emmer, and the Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel willfully neglected Gen Z.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What is most upsetting about the Democrats\u2019 triumph \u2014 with youths preferring that party over Republicans by a whopping 28-point margin, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/2022-election-center#youth-prefer-democrats-by-28-point-margin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exit polls<\/a> \u2014 is that unique from most cycles, Republicans had one important advantage with young, particularly college-aged, voters: Democrats had spent the last two years uniquely torturing Gen Z with ineffective and abusive Covid policies.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, neither McConnell nor McCarthy did anything to capitalize on the incredible circumstances. They had zero plan for recruiting Gen Z voters, opting essentially to hand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2019\/01\/30\/an-early-look-at-the-2020-electorate-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 percent<\/a> of eligible voters to Democrats, which the left took full advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the midterms,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/ellison-other-democrats-hold-get-out-the-vote-event-at-university-of-minnesota\/600217884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats<\/a>\u00a0did weekly college campus door-knocking events at dorms and apartments. Democrat candidates visited and spoke to students. Democrat grassroots organizations publicized mail-in-balloting (which is very attractive to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/16\/gen-z-can-do-everything-from-home-if-that-becomes-the-voting-norm-theres-no-going-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convenience-driven<\/a>\u00a0generation). Most importantly, savvy leftist consultant groups taught Democrat candidates how to effectively campaign to young voters via social media and particularly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/gen-z-consultants-advise-candidates-rcna49216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This election cycle was a lost opportunity for Republicans who had a chance to remind young voters that Democrats violated their bodily autonomy and mentally enslaved them for two years. Covid posed virtually no threat to young people. Yet Democrat leaders pressured left-wing university bureaucrats into forcing healthy students to take experimental Covid shots that were not only ineffectual but caused now-verified cases of vaccine injuries, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/cdc-admits-post-vaccine-myocarditis-concerns-that-were-labeled-covid-misinformation-are-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heart issues\u00a0<\/a>and irregular\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/covid-tyrants-told-women-its-just-your-period-honey-millions-of-jabs-later-they-admit-it-wasnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">menstrual cycles<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Students who did not comply with the Covid shot mandates were punished in a whole host of ways, including campus officials disabling their university WiFi, barring them from campus, restricting them from attending in-person learning, and preventing them from registering for classes. Some were even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thechicagothinker.com\/exclusive-union-college-sophomore-gets-expelled-for-refusing-booster-shot-despite-her-doctor-saying-her-getting-booster-is-ill-advised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expelled<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For over a year, leftist administrations defrauded students of their tuition dollars by subjecting them to inferior remote learning. When classes finally resumed in person, colleges required students to wear masks, which continued even when the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/17\/cdc-finally-admits-cloth-masks-were-always-political-theater\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cdc-finally-admits-cloth-masks-were-always-political-theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> admitted they were utterly useless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, as University of Chicago student Declan Hurley\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thechicagothinker.com\/uchicagos-nonsensical-mask-mandate-cruel-to-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0last year, \u201cIn addition to being epidemiologically indefensible, this policy is cruel to deaf and hard-of-hearing students like me\u201d because it \u201c[bars] us from reading people\u2019s lips, muffling people\u2019s voices, and inhibiting effective communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Universities <a href=\"https:\/\/thechicagothinker.com\/science-proves-fitness-protects-against-covid-but-uchicago-makes-it-impossible-to-work-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shuttered<\/a> campus indoor and outdoor athletic facilities, which was not only detrimental to students\u2019 mental and physical health but also anti-science, since being fit is a crucial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuvancehealth.org\/coronavirus\/exercise-is-essential-for-well-being-during-covid-19-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">safeguard<\/a>\u00a0against the worst Covid outcomes for those with comorbidities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some schools, like the one I attended,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thechicagothinker.com\/university-of-chicago-demands-new-level-of-covid-compliance-mental-submission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced students to sign<\/a>\u00a0documents pledging to follow anti-science Covid mandates. My school\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1R19j3YahNrGBw1gc3SxbTwYSjJYbGSo2dLiJXc0rmTo\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Required COVID-19 Attestation<\/a>\u201d forced students into mental submission as well, making students \u201cagree\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell and McCarthy handed Gen Z to Democrats on a silver platter. 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