If the thing that young people take from being part of a losing campaign is that the entire concept of engaging with democracy is pointless then we will have deserved every stupid thing they’ve ever said about millennial laziness and entitlement https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1248097130671214595

Sometimes you work really really hard and you still don’t get what you wanted. This should only be a shocking revelation if you are a literal infant.

Also want to add that none of the young leftists I know would even think that one loss meant they should never bother with voting or phonebanking ever again. Workers, the poor, the incarcerated—they don’t stop needing a voice because one candidate you liked lost an election!