“It’s Not Living. It’s Survival.” What 22 Gen Z Voters Told Me in Charlotte
A Saturday morning focus group with young Americans revealed something deeper than political disagreement: exhaustion.
The Backdrop
A dozen undergraduate members of the Harvard Public Opinion Project and I spent Saturday morning in Charlotte with more than twenty young Americans — Gen Z voters ages 20 to 29 — in a town hall–style focus group. Within 10 minutes, the word “survival” had replaced “living” as the way they described their daily existence.
This wasn’t a room of…
