Delorean in tow, Dan Crenshaw promoted a return to ’80s-era Republican Party principles during his third annual youth summit this weekend in Houston.
Among Generation Z — those born after 1996 — slightly more than half are non-Hispanic white, according to Pew Research. Twenty-five percent are Hispanic, 14% are Black, 6% are Asian, and 5% are some other race or two or more races.
Printed literature distributed to attendees at the third annual Crenshaw Youth Summit Sunday harkens back to Reagan-era Republican politics.“This is something that the GOP has struggled with for a long time,” said Brandon Rottinghaus, a University of Houston professor of political science and longtime observer of Southeast Texas politics. “I like to joke with my students that the current crop of Republican candidates put the ‘old’ in ‘Grand Old Party.
Crenshaw’s two-day conference was marketed to teenagers and young adults through their mid-20s, and featured many of traditional GOP talking points from Abbott, longtime conservative radio commentator Dennis Prager, National Review Editor Rich Lowry and Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, among others.
“It seems like, very recently, it’s been really hard for any side to make any change,” said Kevin Loewenstein, a 19-year-old Houstonian and self-described die-hard conservative. “We just keep going back to divide. It’s divide, divide, divide.”
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