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November 21, 2023

Stephen Collinson, Caitlin Hu and Shelby Rose

A new generation is ready for its turn

A counter-protestor is blocked by police from approaching a pro-Palestinian protest on a college campus in Philadelphia on November 1.

A new Middle East war may herald a coming-of-age moment for a new American political generation.

Scenes of civilian death and destruction in Gaza as Israel seeks to crush Palestinian militant group Hamas following its bloody October 7 terror attack have opened fissures in the bedrock of US support for the Jewish state. US President Joe Biden’s refusal to pressure the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a ceasefire is costing him with young voters and progressives — two vital sectors of his coalition as he seeks reelection. In a new NBC News poll for example, 70% of Americans aged between 18-34 disapproved of Biden’s management of the war in the Middle East.

This shift coincides with the curious tale of dozens of young Americans who posted on TikTok expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden, after a decades-old letter by the mastermind of 9/11 circulated on the platform. The letter attempts to justify the killing of US citizens over Washington's support to Israel, and its popularity on TikTok last week has baffled older Americans who lived through the trauma of the worst-ever terror attack on US soil. But 20-somethings aren’t necessarily bound by the same assumptions and experiences as older age groups, and the viral letter points to how a coming shift of political power from baby boomers to younger generations could recast US politics.

Young Americans looking forward to casting their first vote next year have grown up against a tumultuous political backdrop. They were toddlers at the start of the post-9/11 wars and starting school during the 2008 financial crisis. They grew up at a time when the US was constantly at war and in which financial stress has long weighed on their parents.

This is the first generation of Americans whose lives are completely online, dominated by social media apps and texting that sometimes replaces person-to-person contact. For many members of this cohort, the Covid-19 pandemic also wiped out in-person high school and college years, with social, psychological and educational reverberations that will take years to play out.

Former US President Barack Obama, a figure seen by many younger people as dynamic and relatable, was a constant background presence in their teens before the arrival of Donald Trump, who was seen more as a cartoon figure than a politician when he won the 2016 election. Today, it’s hardly surprising that many young Americans should feel alienated from Biden, who was born less than a year after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and will be more than 60 years older than first-time voters next year.

That's not to say young Americans disappointed by Biden will defect en masse to Trump, if he’s the Republican nominee in 2024. He too is six decades older than newbies at the ballot box and his racially tinged rhetoric often offends a generation more comfortable with increasing diversity than many of the ex-president’s base voters. Trump is also responsible for the conservative Supreme Court majority that outlawed abortion rights — an issue that motivates many young Democrats. So by this time next year, the Middle East war may fade behind such national issues for voters as they pick a president.

But Biden cannot afford to lose anyone's support; next year’s election is likely to be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes in a few swing states. And the likely presence on the ballot of non-conventional candidates like Robert Kennedy Jr., for instance, means there will be other options for disaffected youngsters looking to protest, or left cold by the conventional choices.

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The number of civilians killed in Gaza is “unparalleled and unprecedented” in comparison to any conflict since 2017, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said.

Frustrated families of hostages in Gaza confronted Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in tense meetings

Far-right "anarcho-capitalist" Javier Milei is Argentina’s next president.

And the Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial and dangerous threshold.

Meanwhile in America, a White House official said negotiations are “getting close to the end” on the release of Hamas' hostages.

Elon Musk is suing watchdog group Media Matters over its analysis highlighting antisemitic and pro-Nazi content on social media platform X.

And over 500 employees of OpenAI threatened to quit over former CEO Sam Altman’s firing.

'Smart' and 'fierce'

Who would most Americans trust to deal with the world’s most ruthless leaders — Trump or Biden? The truth might be neither, given the contempt that many voters have for their possible general election choices next year.

But Trump is convinced that he’s got a way with dictators that could pave his way back to power — despite his craven performances in such encounters when he was in office.

Trump speaks in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Saturday.

In Iowa at the weekend, Trump lambasted his successor over his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, claiming Biden had “absolutely no idea … what was happening.”

He lavished praise however on Xi as “smart” and “fierce," asking his crowd: “Who do you want to have sitting across the table from President Xi or President Putin?”

"There's nobody in Hollywood that can play the role of President Xi. The look. The strength. The voice," Trump also said of the leader, whose critics in China see a doppelgänger in Winnie the Pooh.

Trump often fawned over Xi in office, and marveled at his iron rule. But things soured when Covid-19 emerged in China and Trump viewed it as a plot to destroy his presidency.

Trump speaks in Claremont, New Hampshire on November 11th.

Trump claims that only he is tough enough to sit with the world’s tough guys. But in reality, he behaved more like a fan boy as president when in their presence.

Who can forget the Helsinki summit, for instance, when he trashed US intelligence agencies and took the word of Putin, a former KGB colonel, on the issue of election interference. Xi and Putin probably want him back and no wonder. Trump is promising to end US support for Ukraine, might try to pull the US out of NATO, and spent years berating US allies in Asia who are critical to Washington's front against China. And his summits with Kim Jong Un delivered the photo-ops the North Korean tyrant pined for, but did nothing to slow the development of his nuclear and missile programs.

But Trump might be onto something too. New polls show voters have little confidence in Biden’s statesmanship, despite his defense of democracy in Ukraine and reinvigoration of US alliances. So, there’s probably a market for Trump’s tough talk — even if he’ll likely turn to jelly again when it really matters.

Thanks for reading.

On Tuesday, King Charles and Queen Camilla host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Mrs. Kim Keon Hee in London. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets with the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Ana Brnabić in Belgrade.

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<p style="margin:0;font-size:16px;mso-line-height-alt:28.8px"><span style="font-size:16px;">A new Middle East war may herald a coming-of-age moment for a new American political generation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Scenes of civilian death and destruction in Gaza as Israel seeks to crush Palestinian militant group Hamas following its bloody October 7 terror attack have opened fissures in the bedrock of US support for the Jewish state. US President Joe Biden’s refusal to pressure the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a ceasefire is costing him with young voters and progressives — two vital sectors of his coalition as he seeks reelection. In a new NBC News poll for example, 70% of Americans aged between 18-34 disapproved of Biden’s management of the war in the Middle East.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">This shift coincides with the curious tale of dozens of young Americans who posted on TikTok expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden, after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tech/tiktok-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t6">a decades-old letter</a> by the mastermind of 9/11 circulated on the platform. The letter attempts to justify the killing of US citizens over Washington's support to Israel, and its popularity on TikTok last week has baffled older Americans who lived through the trauma of the worst-ever terror attack on US soil. But 20-somethings aren’t necessarily bound by the same assumptions and experiences as older age groups, and the viral letter points to how a coming shift of political power from baby boomers to younger generations could recast US politics.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Young Americans looking forward to casting their first vote next year have grown up against a tumultuous political backdrop. They were toddlers at the start of the post-9/11 wars and starting school during the 2008 financial crisis. They grew up at a time when the US was constantly at war and in which financial stress has long weighed on their parents. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:16px;mso-line-height-alt:28.8px"><span style="font-size:16px;">This is the first generation of Americans whose lives are completely online, dominated by social media apps and texting that sometimes replaces person-to-person contact. For many members of this cohort, the Covid-19 pandemic also wiped out in-person high school and college years, with social, psychological and educational reverberations that will take years to play out.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Former US President Barack Obama, a figure seen by many younger people as dynamic and relatable, was a constant background presence in their teens before the arrival of Donald Trump, who was seen more as a cartoon figure than a politician when he won the 2016 election. Today, </span><span style="font-size:16px;">it’s hardly surprising that many young Americans should feel alienated from Biden, who was born less than a year after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and will be more than 60 years older than first-time voters next year.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">That's not to say young Americans disappointed by Biden will defect en masse to Trump, if he’s the Republican nominee in 2024. He too is six decades older than newbies at the ballot box and his racially tinged rhetoric often offends a generation more comfortable with increasing diversity than many of the ex-president’s base voters. Trump is also responsible for the conservative Supreme Court majority that outlawed abortion rights — an issue that motivates many young Democrats. So by this time next year, the Middle East war may fade behind such national issues for voters as they pick a president.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">But Biden cannot afford to lose anyone's support; next year’s election is likely to be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes in a few swing states. And the likely presence on the ballot of non-conventional candidates like Robert Kennedy Jr., for instance, means there will be other options for disaffected youngsters looking to protest, or left cold by the conventional choices.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">The number of civilians killed in Gaza is “<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-20-23/h_8d364d94afe3d3047232a5443fc7ed43" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t8">unparalleled and unprecedented</a>” in comparison to any conflict since 2017, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Frustrated families of hostages in Gaza <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-20-23/h_500b92e435fd365cdc239d40a781a6bf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t9">confronted Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir </a>in tense meetings</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Far-right "anarcho-capitalist" <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/19/world/argentina-vote-milei-massa-nov-19/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t10">Javier Milei</a> is Argentina’s next president.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">And the Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/climate/climate-pledges-ndcs-un-report/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t11">and dangerous threshold.</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Meanwhile in America, a White House official said negotiations are <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-20-23/h_310ef6b5f155b37f7c5fe66fb2ab17f4" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t12">“getting close to the end”</a> on the release of Hamas' hostages.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Elon Musk is suing watchdog group Media Matters over <a href="https://us.cnn.com/2023/11/20/tech/x-sues-media-matters/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t13">its analysis highlighting antisemitic and pro-Nazi content </a>on social media platform X.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">And </span><span style="font-size:16px;">over 500 employees of <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/20/tech/openai-employees-quit-mira-murati-sam-altman/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t14">OpenAI</a> threatened to quit over former CEO Sam Altman’s firing.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Who would most Americans trust to deal with the world’s most ruthless leaders — Trump or Biden? </span><span style="font-size:16px;">The truth might be neither, given the contempt that many voters have for their possible general election choices next year.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">But Trump is convinced that he’s got a way with dictators that could pave his way back to power — despite his craven performances in such encounters when he was in office.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:16px;mso-line-height-alt:28.8px"><span style="font-size:16px;">In Iowa at the weekend, Trump lambasted his successor over his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, claiming Biden had “absolutely no idea … what was happening.”  </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:16px;mso-line-height-alt:28.8px"><span style="font-size:16px;">He lavished praise however on Xi as “smart” and “fierce," asking his crowd: “Who do you want to have sitting across the table from President Xi or President Putin?” </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">"There's nobody in Hollywood that can play the role of President Xi. The look. The strength. The voice," Trump also said of the leader, whose critics in China see a doppelgänger in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/asia/china-pooh-censor-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t16">Winnie the Pooh.</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:16px;mso-line-height-alt:28.8px"><span style="font-size:16px;">Trump often fawned over Xi in office, and marveled at his iron rule. But things soured when Covid-19 emerged in China and Trump viewed it as a plot to destroy his presidency.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:16px;mso-line-height-alt:28.8px"><span style="font-size:16px;">Trump claims that only he is tough enough to sit with the world’s tough guys. But in reality, he behaved more like a fan boy as president when in their presence. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">Who can forget the Helsinki summit, for instance, when he trashed US intelligence agencies and took the word of Putin, a former KGB colonel, on the issue of election interference. Xi and Putin probably want him back and no wonder. Trump is promising to end US support for Ukraine, might try to pull the US out of NATO, and spent years berating US allies in Asia who are critical to Washington's front against China. And his summits with Kim Jong Un delivered the photo-ops the North Korean tyrant pined for, but did nothing to slow the development of his nuclear and missile programs.</span>
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<span style="font-size:16px;">But Trump might be onto something too. New polls show voters have little confidence in Biden’s statesmanship, despite his defense of democracy in Ukraine and reinvigoration of US alliances. So, there’s probably a market for Trump’s tough talk — even if he’ll likely turn to jelly again when it really matters.</span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>On Tuesday</strong>, King Charles and Queen Camilla <a href="https://www.royal.uk/korea-update" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t17">host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Mrs. Kim Keon Hee in London</a>. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg <a href="https://e.newsletters.cnn.com/click" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #CD2027;" rel="noopener" data-location="t18">meets with</a> the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Ana Brnabić in Belgrade.</span></em>
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