To Goldberg, I have to assume that Bagby will remain guilty of the same stereotyping and identity politicking of which he's already accused her. Ironically, despite his arguments to the contrary, Goldberg himself seems guilty of something similar. In a key passage of his article, he lumps Xers together, basically as idiots, in their reaction to the negative characterization of them that appeared throughout the popular media earlier this decade. Two points refute his objections as applied to youth activists in the political arena. First, polling suggests that young people do have some shared political interests.
Jobs are a big subject on their mind, as is crime and drugs.
The same cannot necessarily be said of other generations. A cursory look at one coalition does not provide the evidence to completely denigrate efforts to make the political arena more accessible to young adults. Which, as Goldberg says in his story, brings us back to Heather Nauert. I say hooey.