Being in my early forties, I’ve come to the realization that I probably won’t have my parents around for all that much longer. The same is true with many of the baby boomers, the Vietnam generation. Those who graduated college in the early 1970s, lived through a decade of stagnation and the Reagan administration thereafter.

The loss of that generation may have a profound impact on politics, although conservatives always seem to have ways of remaining relevant as times change. I am sure my parents generation felt the same way about the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation. When the Hoovers and even the Eisenhowers generation is gone, things will be better. Ignoring the backlash politics of Richard Nixon and his of party during the late sixties and early seventies. A lot of things did change for the better with that generation but also backlash politics of mass incarceration and hysteria over drugs came to be.

I doubt liberalism will become ascendant in the years to come but conservativism will certainly evolve to remain relevant. We are already seeing that with the remaking of the GOP under Trump. I expect it to change further just like the Democratic Party is, changing to remain relevant.