{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 63 \u2013 Gen Z Conservatism with Nate Hochman","description":"As Millennial conservatives know, conservatism gets a bad wrap in our generation.  Conservatism is a hard sell on the young in general because it begins by challenging our natural inclinations towards innovation, novelty, and the pursuit of progress and revolution over gratitude and reform.  And far too often, older conservatives fail to understand the unique historical inputs\u2014the Great Recession, 9-11, our increasingly digital and automated world, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street\u2014that have formed our worldviews.  As such, they tend to dismiss Millennial concerns as trite, unappreciative, ignorant, or dangerously unpatriotic instead of engaging our concerns head-on and offering better solutions.  We\u2019re depicted as the \u201ckids these days\u201d and largely written off as hopeless causes who will eventually swing to the Right when we learn what\u2019s good for us.   But the oldest Millennials will soon be forty\u2014which hardly qualifies as the \u201ckids these days\u201d.  And as Millennials age and eventually take charge, are we in danger of repeating the same mistakes of our elders?  Do we understand the unique inputs that are forming the next generation of Americans\u2014COVID-19, civil unrest and police misconduct, the Trump era\u2014and how the message of conservatism might be tailored to meet their concerns?   To that end, Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis (a Millennial) welcomes Nate Hochman (Gen Z) to the podcast to discuss conservatism through the eyes of younger Americans.   Nate Hochman is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Athwart, an online publication that offers a platform for dissent from Colorado College\u2019s political orthodoxy.  Hochman is currently majoring in political science with a minor in journalism at Colorado College.  He has interned at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and National Review and has been published in National Review.  He is currently interning with Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg\u2019s media start-up The Dispatch.  You can follow Nate on Twitter @njhochman ","author_name":"Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values","author_url":"https:\/\/www.savingelephantsblog.com\/","html":"