A happy consequence of the Trump era?

Young people are not likely to forget the activism they’re learning now, said Ella Robinson, a 16-year-old in Silver Spring, Md. The Trump era has taught her and her fellow students political savvy, she said, as their spontaneous school walkouts have been replaced by organized protests, with permits and tailored messages around issues like gun control and climate change.

“People in my generation are very aware that walkouts can only go so far,” Ms. Robinson said. “Voting needs to happen.”

Emily Badger and Claire Cain Miller, NY Times

Let's hope that's representative. This interesting feature on (mostly white) young political participants for which the line serves as the conclusion seems to say so.

This was absolutely not what my generation (Vietnam/Civil Rights struggles) learned from widespread, equally urgent activism. The System (both political parties) refused to end an immoral, unjust war and slow-walked racial justice; many of the most activist among us turned away from small "d" democratic politics. But neither mass demonstrations nor retreat from politics constructed the world we hoped for.

Go to it, kids!