The millenial generation is NOT becoming more conservative as they age

It has been a truism since forever that young people are liberal/progressive, but they shift to conservative values as they age. 

The pattern has held remarkably firm. By my calculations, members of Britain’s “silent generation”, born between 1928 and 1945, were five percentage points less conservative than the national average at age 35, but around five points more conservative by age 70. The “baby boomer” generation traced the same path, and “Gen X”, born between 1965 and 1980, are now following suit. Millennials — born between 1981 and 1996 — started out on the same trajectory, but then something changed. 

The shift has striking implications for the UK’s Tories and US wingnuts, who can no longer simply rely on their base being replenished as the years pass. Discussion continues at the Financial Times. 

And relevant commentary in this Guardian op-ed.