“Where Are All the Gen-X Democrats?”

In a new column, contributor Scott Timberg asks: “Where are all the Gen-X Democrats?” Timberg, himself an Xer, has a good answer: The Great Recession pushed this already distrustful bunch to opposite ends of the political spectrum—Tea Party conservatism on the one side and Occupy liberalism on the other—leaving a dearth of pro-establishment Xer Democrat…