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This @Neil_Irwin piece on the end of deficit alarmism has me thinking about something @teasri tweeted the other day. How much of this change is about the idea battle vs how much is generational battle nytimes.com/2019/02/23/ups…
Here's the @teasri tweet
This whole thread actually
It's nice to think that people pushing back against deficit fear-mongoring have changed some minds. But maybe millennials are just tired of being nailed to a cross of 2% inflation, and they have the numbers (and increasingly the representation in DC) to do something about it.
Addendum to this thread: It's interesting how cries about how "the national debt is placing a terrible burden on the younger generations" is almost exclusively something you hear from older people.
What's another example of something about how the ostensible victims of some policy are virtually never among the people making a big deal about it.
