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Which raises a question: Might Cheney, along ‘with other prominent Republicans on the outs with the party because they have withheld fealty tothe former president, mount their next lection bids as independents—or even forma third party? ‘The conventional wisdom says no, given the poor showings most inde pendent candidates have historical ly turned in against the combined right of the two major parties. On the other hand, these are unconventional times in politics, and for the first time in decades the prospects fora third party may be better than poor. At the moment, those prospects largely depend ‘on Joe Biden, He's popular right now, at least by recent presidential standards. And it's no wonder: ‘Theswife vaccine rollout Is taming the pandemle,a big stimulus package has provided economic help, DAVID H. FREEDMAN w eanteeednan and a massive infrastructure program that could further prop up the economy is in the works What about 20247 In his first press conference (on March 25, Biden said it was his “expectation” to run but conceded there was some uncertainty Hell be 82 years old, nine years older than Ronald Reagan was when reelected. Before then, Biden will have to navigate the midterm elections and, per haps, two years ofa hostile Congress. By then, Dem: ‘ocrats may well be clamoring to give Vice President Kamala Haris or another more progressive and. youthful candidate a shot at leading the party and the country. That's where the third-party pos sibilities get interesting. IF the Dem: ‘ocrats do go ith a progressive, and if Trump or someone in his mold is the Republican candidate, voters will face fone of the starkest electoral choices in American history: lurch further to the left than the nation has ever gone before or further to the right. Evidence suggests that most voters aren't inter ested in either option, nor in the continuing cycles of outrage and conflict either of these extremes would likely entail. “The two major parties are more extreme than ever before,” says David Shor head of data science with progressive nonprofit uwPeriscope pouaties Opentabs and a leading Democratic | third of Americans say the two ma officials and activists to discuss an polling analst.“Atthe sametime, the jor parties adequately represent the nti-Trump spinoff from the party percentage of people dissatisfied with | publi, historically low number for Many prominent moderate Repub: the system is langer than eve the poll. Meanwhile, half of voters lican leaders beyond Cheney have While Biden's early tentative suc. | currently say they are independents, already openly expressed their dis cesseshave forthe moment subdued a record high. gust with Trumpian Republicanism, the polarization thatwas ad bare in Because the vast majority of inde including Utah Senator Mitt Romney the previous administration, most | pendents end to drift toward one of and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, observers expect dissatisfaction the two major parties as election day while others have left orare planning with the two major parties to come | approaches, most of the votes fora to eave polities, including Arizona's roaring back to the surface soon— | third-party candidate would have Jeff Fake, Ohio’ Rob Portman, and perhaps in the coming months as | to be diverted from one or both of Pennsylvania's Charlie Dent and Pat campaigning stars in earnest for | those partes. Few people question Toomey. the midterm elections—and contin- | thatthe Republican party, at leas, s ‘To be sure, the path to a formal ue right through to-2024 currently primed to leak a substan split remains murky, and Trump third party could be the way out, | tal fraction ofits once dependable appears to remain largely dominant Many political observers seem to voters, State voter records indicate But the breakaway talk is strong ev: think so. In the past year there has that in the weeks following the Jan ence of internal turmoil that leaves been more talkof the need fora new | aryattackon the Capitol more than the Republican party ripe for voter centrist political partythan therehas 100,000 registered Republicans took defections. "At least 20 t030 percent = been in over a century Several polit- | the troubleto delist themselves from of Republican voters want a new ica organizations have sprung upto | the party’ rolls, direction,” says Evan McMullin,a createor support newalterntives to Seeing this initial wavering of sup former Republican activist turned the two major parties, and some are port, Trump and many of his most independent, and now co-execu starting to gain traction. Since the loyal supporters immediately talked tive director of Stand Up Republic, January 6 attack on the capitol, un- | of forming a breakaway ‘Patriot Par which organizes fundraising and solicited trafic to our website fs up "But Trump soon abandoned that, outreach in support of anti-Trump, 10,000 percent compared a year ago, | idea, insisting he would maintain center-right candidates. “There'san § and donations are up2,000 percent” | control of the Republican party—if opportunity for a pro-democracy says David Jolly, aformer Republican | notasthe2024 candidate, then asthe movement to give people fromthe US. Congressman from Florida and party kingmaker looking to anoint tight a new home thats more com- ‘now executive chairman of the Serve | Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley or fortable for them.” : ‘America Movement, an independent | some other supplicant. That declara Anew party consisting mainly of — 3 party formed in 2017. We haven't | tion of control, in turn ed toan ear former Republicans would simply seen this sortof movement towarda ly February Zoom meeting of some split the Republican vote leavingit- ‘new party in years.” 120 current and former Republican | mmm self and the remaining Republican g A third-party president in 2024 is party uncompetitive. Tohavea shot 3 not the most likely outcome, but ne atwinning.a new party would need thers it farfetched, « + achunkof the Democratic party,t00. The two major jcyvinoenocsscreniye Falling Barriers Parties are More _ inghighinenecarlydaysorthesiden THERE IS REASON TO THINK THAT extreme than adiminitratontheresno guarantee $ po te gee eu everbefore.The "muita cers say they want a third party, in percentage of people par ispoisd to move eft ina vay : ding pret of Demos dissatisfied with eultkeenanjrisousun | ercent of Republicans, and 70 per eq comfortable. “Joe Biden isprovingto Centof independents according ta the systemis jihcishepemonatthesightume 5 Gallup poll in early February. Only a larger than ever.” tor the party, but Ya be shocked if 12 Newsweex.com JUNE 25, 2021he runs again” says Russ Tremayne, a historian at the College of South ern Idaho who studies US, elections, “That would open up a real divide in the party between progressives and moderates.” If there were a front-runner to replace Biden, should he step aside in 2024, it would be Vice President Harris. Although she has some pro: agressive credentials, her inconsistent record on key issues has alienated some progressives. In a hypothetical 2024 search, they may well push for a more aggressive candidat Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ross Perot nade centrist run fr president in 1992 that drew from both major ‘artoe. Clockwis from top: Perotin 1993; US. Rep David Joh, who split fem the Republican party: Vice President Kamala Hari, Cory Booker, or even Alexandria Oc asio-Cortez (who will reach the min. imum presidential age two months before inauguration day). Any of those candidates, or someone in their mold, might well leave moderate Democratic voters open to a centrist third party ‘Traditionally, the opportunity for drawing away moderate Democratic voters has come with candidates who combine economically conservative policies with more liberal social po sitions, much as Amold Schwarzeneg: ‘ger once did in California, But today the opposite is likely to be a better strategy, says polling analyst Shor. That's because some of the policies and stances pushed by many pro- sgressives, Including “cancel culture, Medicare for all, defunding the po lice, reparations, and looser immi gration controls, tend to be turnoff not only to older white Democrats, but also—perhaps surprisingly—to big percentage of minority voters. Defunding the police, for example, Is supported by only 34 percent of Democrats and 28 percent of Black Americans, according to an early ‘March Ipsos/USA Today poll, Nearly a third of Black and His panic voters label themselves con: servative, according to polling firm, Public Opinion Strategies. "The share of non-white voters in the Democratic party is large and only going up.” says Shor, “and those vot ers are substantially more moderate than white Democratic voters." The hyping of hot-button issues by young, white, college-educated progressives is pushing moderate working-class minorities away from the party, he claims. Many Democratic leaders blamed the loss of a dozen seats in the House in 2020 on progressive stances, That dynamic isalready play ing out in California, where opposi tion from Hispanic and Asian voters helped defeat a November ballot measure that would have opened the door toaffirmative-action programs in the state government, says Tom Campbell, a former five-term Repub: lican Congressman who is now chair of the centrist Common Sense Party The ability fora centrist third par ty to draw some Democrats could make the math workin a presidential lection. Ifa third party took most independent voters, a third of Re publicans, and a fifth of Democrats, itwould win Conventional wisdom holds that NEWSWEEK.COM 13,Periscope the country’s voting processes favor major parties, and that new parties, are crushed by the fundraising and voter-outreach inf ‘two major parties have built over more than 150 years, But several countries with voting systems like the US’s have effective third parties, including the UK, Canada, Indiaand. the Philippines. ructures the Mixed History In the nineteenth century, important third parties were plentiful. They in cluded the Know-Nothing Party, the Free Soil Party, and the Whig Party The latter was eventually knocked ‘out of contention by an even newer third party called the Republican Party, led by a former Whig Congress man from Illinois named Abraham. Lincoln, Since then, the only truly competitive third-party presidential run came in 1912, when former two term President Theodore Roosevelt lost the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft and formed the Progressive Party in order to run, coming in second to Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, The only two third-party runs in modern polities to attract more than a tny share of votes were Ross Perot’s Reform Party in 1992, which garnered just under 20 percent ofthe vote, and George Wallace's American Independent Party, which in 1968 pulled in about 4 percent of the vote. Perot's centrist run, which drew almost equally from bath major par ties, is often taken as proof of concept for modern third parties, especially given the fact that he was leading the race early on but gave away hi momentum when he temporarily dropped out of the race midway Still, the two major parties have access t0 vast levels of funding staff, volunteer 14 Newsweex.com pouarzes. networks, and donor and voter lists which they can deploy to target and bombard voters with messages aimed atkeeping them ia line. Many experts and politicians believe that machinery can be over come with the right candidate armed with the right policy mix and backed by savvy marketing, especially in a progres off, Right now, they say, that strate gy would involve loudly embracing broadly popular economic programs such asa higher minimum wage, in creasing spending on education, and modestly expanding Medicare cov cerage—while quietly taking vaguely middle-of the-road views on hot-but ton cultural issues that tend todivide voters, such as defending women’s right to choose but only up toa cer tain point in apregnaney, supporting the right to own guns but beefing up background checks, calling for ef forts to crack down on police racism while objecting to defunding depart ‘ments, and limiting immigration but supporting dreamer type programs. “There are ways to finesse some of these issues to avoid drawing atten tion to them,’ says Thomas Patterson, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. “You can talk about sive-versus-Trumpian face aw and order without sounding like a white supremacist.” That's the sort of strategy that both Jolly’s Serve America Movement and Campbell's Common Sense Party are planning to enlist in 2022 and 2024. Campbell has been focusing fn state-legislative elections in Cal ifornia for now, where he says the biggest barrier fo running as an in dependent is the up-front one of get ting on the ballot by getting 73,000 voters to register for the party. “We were signing up 10,000 voters a month before the pandemic hit and we had to shut down,’ he says,adding that the effort is spinning up again. The party has targeted seven of the state's 80 districts, and if it can win those elections it will have enough votes to sing most state legislation, At that point the party will start tar {geting other states and even elections for national office, with the goal of gaining some high-profile wins that build the party's credibility and sway Jolly’s party is using high-tech data tools that he says Silicon Valley com panies are making available to him in order to punch above the party's weight when it comes to targetingvoters. "We think voters are ready to split evenly between Democrat, Re publican and independent,” he says. “All we have to do is establish a brand and front a candidate with name rec: cognition.” That need to find just the right candidate to steal enough votes from the two big parties is a challenge for the third-party movement. “The candidates who did well with third parties ike Theodore Roosevelt and George Wallace, already had a lot of stature when they entered their rac es," says Patterson, "You need some one like that in order to get enough early momentum (o overcome Re publicans’ and Democrats’ advantag. es.” Without a well-known, riveting character to front the party and make wes quick splash, he says, most voters “The conditions are more favorable to an than they have been in along time.” Republican afficials and activists met in February to discuss an ant-Trump spinof. Loft: Supporters of formor President Trump gather New York City in March, ‘will dismiss a third-party candidate as someone who can't win and isn’t ‘worth wasting a vote on, even if they like the candidate's positions It could be difficult convincing real contenders to abandon a major party—especially given how rela tively eagy iti to simply throw one’s hat in the ring of a major party’s pri aries, What's more, notes William Frey, senior fellow atthe Brookings Institute, Democratic candidates in particular might fear that jumping toa third party and siphoning away Democratic votes could uninten. tionally open the door to their worst nightmare, “The specter of Trump holding onto power has united the Democrats for now,” says Frey. “If ‘Trump runs again, the same might happen. But the Trump-unites-Democrats theory may not hold if the Democrats go too boldly progressive heading into 2024. The resulting gap could invite a third-party run from one of Congress's highly visible moderate Democrats, such as Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, or an anti-Trump moderate Republican like Illinois, Rep. Adam Kinzinger—or even from a celebrity like actor Matthew ‘MeConaughey, who has already ex pressed interest in the Texas govern ership without aligning with either major party “The conditions are more favorable toan independent candidate than they have been ina long time," says Harvard's Patterson. Perhaps what the party of Lincoln did to the Whigs, oneof these parties will do to the party of Lincoln, NEWSWEEK.COM 15Periscope Gaming an Early Warning System How awell-intended U.S. government database fuels dangerous vaccine misinformation Natural News—which News Guard has rated Red, meaning gen- erally unreliable—published a story reporting the death of a 2-year-old who in late February had received the second dose of a Pfizer-BioN ‘Tech COVID-19 vaccine during the company's clinical trials for chil dren. The only problem? Children under 5 did not begin receiving shots until April, according to a press release on the Pfizer website. Natural News picked “How come a 2 year old baby got vac: inated?” ‘The answer is that the incident never happened, CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund told USA Today that the adverse event report was ‘completely made up" and the CDC took the rare step of removing it from the VAERS system, This is far from the only time that anti-vaecine advocates have used VAERS data to claim, falsely, that COVID-19 vaccines can or have caused death, infertil upthefalseclaim from —___ ity or other side effects another Red-rated web. site: Great Game India, Using data from News: Whip, a social media The single source of MELISSA GOLDIN, intelligence company, evidence cited by both 30HN GREGORY and NewsGuard has found websites was the Vac- cine Adverse Event Reporting System, or ‘VAERS, a database jointly run for 31 years by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US. Food and Drug Administration. Its purpose: to be ‘a national early warning system to detect possible safety problems in US-licensed vac cines,’ according to its website. It is true that a report about a 2-year-old who died was submitted to VAERS on March 5, 2021. But Great Game India’s article noted that Pfizer's “own promotion says the vaccination trials were for chit dren from age 5 to 11" and asked, 16 NEWswEEK.com KENDRICK that Red-rated sources NeponaLo like Natural News and Great Game India account for over 80 percent of Face- book engagement on stories that prominently cite VAERS. Some articles that distort VAERS data state that vaccines were the cause of the reported side effects, For example, the Red-rated web site DeconstructingConventional com stated that “at the time of this, writing VAERS reports over 2,200 deaths from the current covid vac. cines, as well as close to 60,000 adverse reactions.” Many other articles reviewed by NewsGuard do include some acknowledgment that VAERS pub. lishes unconfirmed data. However, these warnings, where they exist, are often overshadowed by tactics such as misleading headlines or fearful questions. [As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, or in some cases gets underway, other countries are like ‘wise relying on their own adverse event monitoring systems, How ever, according to NewsGuard’s research, European Red-rated sites spreading vaccine misinforma on reference local adverse event reporting systems less frequently than they reference VAERS—a for- celgn source, For example, in April, French Red:-rated site Planetes360.ir pub lished an article based on VAERS. data that claimed that: "736 persons died within 48 hours after receiving the COVID vaccine.” Although reports have never been vetted before inclusion in the VAERS database since the system’s launch in 1990, the hope was that reports were rooted in reality. But that was before the modern internet, which allows anyone to report anything to VAERS for instant public posting, VAERS isa noisy system by design. I collects unverified reports of any adverse health events reported to have happened following vaccina ton. The database includes reports based entirely on hearsay or lack: ing a plausible link to a vaccine. Although vaccine manufacturers are required to submit reports, any: ‘one can submit a report to VAERS, without providing a name or con: tact information. ‘A ystem like VAERS with an abun. dance of information onto which ‘everyone can project their concerns ‘or agendas has all the potential ben. cefits—and pitfalls—of an internet 2platform focused on vaccines. And during the largest vaccination effort in history, a small but vocal set of activists are using it to sound a false alarm at a much louder volume. ‘The exploitation of VAERS is not a surprise to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadel: phia and a member of the FDA's vac cine advisory committee. “The anti-vaccine people will always say, Look at all these deaths, look at all thedamage that these vaccines are doing. and the only way that’s going to change if we all get to move toa planet that's dominated by reason ‘and logic," Offit sai. Nevertheless, Offit and other pub: lic health officials see the system's | — “The anti-vaccine people will always say, ‘Look at all these deaths, look at all the damage that these vaccines are doing.” vulnerability to manipulation as a necessary risk and suggest that the scope and transparency of VAERS is a testament to how seriously the government takes vaccine safety and the potential risks. VAERS was established in 1990 by the CDC and FDA in response to the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which among other pro- visions requires health care provid ers to report adverse effects that may have been caused by vaccines. It has been used by scientists as an inves: tgative tool to help thetr research and by anti-vaccine organizations to further their agenda by using unverified reports that often lead t0 misinformation "With public access, there's going, to be misinterpretation of the data there,” Susan Ellenberg, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, said. “But without public access, Ithinkit's, ‘worse. Because then you just have people imagining what's there. And tat can really be worse." Whether the benefits of VAERS actually outweigh the risks remains a matter of debate. However, Ellen: berg said she believes that education about the system and its purpose is the best way to counteract any unin. tended harm, “Those of us who work in science can tear our hair out about the way people misinterpret things” shesaid “And all we can do is to continue to try to educate people.” And, of course, now that the VAERS data in raw form has been public for so tong, cries of a deep state conspiracy would certainly fol low any move to shut the data off. 1 Additional reporting by Chandler Kidd, Chine Labbé, Bron Maher, Virginia Padovese, and Macie Richter NEWSWEEK.COM 17Periscope NEUSHAKERS Talking Points os BAN KO BREAKFA, 18 NEWSWEEK.com USATODAY “It’s nota ti message ‘o anythin: other thay saying we're going to rotect , fairness, in women’s sports.” ING TRAN: ATHLETES FROM WOMEN'S HIGH ‘SCHOOL AND COLLEGE SPORTS ‘Alicia Glen, f York deputy mayor, ‘candidate ance nw sera ee tashinton Post *ITHINKINHIS ZEALTO ‘APPEAR YOUNG AND SPONTANEOUS AND WHATEVER, HE ALSO SOMETIMES SOUNDS LIKE ANIDIOT.” Cate CC CS Oma Ts reerCONTENT FROM COUNTRY REPORTS IRELAND HL Ireland: New dawn, new opportunities Irish companies are reacting to COVID-19 and Brexit with more innovation ‘One hundred years ago Ireland was an impoverished agearian nation on the brink of independence from the U.K. Today isa wealthy, dynamic pow. ‘chouse that was the only European Union member to achieve economic growth in 2020. What lies behind this dazaing transformation? A major factor in is suces as been our determination to becomes hub for innovation,” sys Julie Sinnamon, CEO of Enterprise Irland, the agency responsible forthe development and groweh of lsh companies in internation all markets. “Asa small councy, we know thac research and innovation are key to competitivenes. The are comersones of Irelands economic policy. which is now a world leader in generating and using new knowledge For progres Trelanls extensive innovation ecosystem contains many mulation ans in sectors ice technology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and mevsch, Google, Apple, Ficebook, Ine, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and numerous ‘others like them have substantial operations in the outwart-lookng, En lsh speaking councry, where they benefic from peo-busines and research oF: ented policies, a biliany educated wororce, plus easy acces to European and global markets, But Ireland has alo built a strong base of homegrown ‘companies in the same sectors, which made a significant contribution to por lvls in 2020, a yea chat saw both COVID and dain breaking on a pose Brest trading relationship with the U.K. “Our companies responded to the pandemic with innovations that have positioned Ireland fifth in the world for global exports of COVID- related goods and services.” Julie Sinnamon, CEO, Enterprise Ireland With 40 offices worldwide, Enterprise Irand has played a crcl role in this, “We investi the mos innoxaive Irish companies through all sages of their growth and conneer them to incerational customers.” expins Sinn mon. The agency i a ey driver to suppor Irish companies 1 star grows, innovate and win export sks in plbal markets tht has given Island a bur g20ning reputation as startup nation. “Enterprise Ireland yas ranked fs in the world in Pichbook’s 2020 league able of venture capital investors. That yeas we invested over €48 milion in Ih startup,” she sates Years of rutting relanls entrepreneurial spi has pa ofthe CEO as sens “rsh businesesarenow athe center of technological innenation, diven bya global minder, commercial impertives and developing solutions to mace the toughest challenges. The was evident when a large cahor of our comp rau) Showcase oll | ‘Tanalste Leo Varadkar at Irelanc’s Start-Up Showease in February nies responded «othe pandemic wth innovations that have postoned Irland fifth in the wor for global exports of COVID related goods and serves, ac conding to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Among those using the ers as an opportunity to hasten their development are NearForm that built the worlds mos widely adopted contacracing apps Daon, creator of the VeriFLY biometric mobile-health passport; med feal-equipment supplier Acrogen; Aalto Bio that engncered the proteins in ‘many tests for the virus; clinical rearch oxganization ICON, which caried ‘out vaccine tril and healdtech ousourcing expets RelateCare “The crisis accelerated tends and created opportunities for a number of Trish exporters. For example, Workhumaris socal recognition software al lowed the rising numbers of teeworkes to stay connected with colleagues, ‘Smurfit Kappa, the reeye-orented global Iader in paper-based packaging, supported logistics pressure. “Our busines isin extremely good shape because the pandemic accelerated the trends toward e-commerce and sustainability reveals CEO Tony Smurfit, As the planet emerges from COVID, many of ‘the nex generation of Irish firms tipper become workwide names re also focused on the environment—Irdand ranks fifth in MIT Technology Reviews Green Future Index and ic boasts plethora of gren-technology innovators in verse sectors, As Smurfit points out, “Irtand has always had very creative, ‘oper-spitied, cear-thinking people. We've had so many sucesesreaive ro the country siz, rly astounding” — ‘To learn more about how Irelands successful inno- Eg ‘ators are transforming the world, acess our fl-length special with the QR code oF visit www:newswcelecom! nnewseek-country-eports. Read our exclusive full-length special on Ireland on Newsweek.com, brought to you by: BORDBIA oo ENTERRRISE ee IRISH FOOD BOARD Aerogen wwwcountry-reportsnet | C ON ©SmurfitKappa workhumar % Irish Distillers Petnod Rieara Citi WiobMegastar Chris Evans isaking politicians to explain themselves toanew generation Kasson his partner ina Stating Point Pe atSUPERHERO ‘S$ hung up his Captain America shield Now he and his partners want to help Generation Z reshape the U.S. political landscape NEW _ MISSION by David H. Freedman PHOTOGRAPH BY NINO MUNOZ NEWSWEEK.COM 21calls from people wanting things, most ‘of which receive polite regrets But lately one particular cal is consistently get ting past the gatekeepers: the one from Chris Evans. Yes, that Chris Evans. For ayear and a half, the 39-year-old megastar (he turns 40 on June 13), best known for playing Captain America in the Marvel movies, has been quietly working the halls of the Capitol, occasion: ally in person, in an effort to persuade senators and representatives to put aside their hyper-partisan byperbole and explain, in under two minutes, their Views on politics and policy toa new generation of young porential voters. ‘The two-minute interviews are posted to A Start {ing Point, an app and website that Evans co-found: ed with director and actor Mark Kassen and Joe Ki ani, health care entrepreneur and philanthropist. Politica talking policy may seem like heavy fare for the TiKTok cohort, but the venture has so far defied ‘gravity. Ithas more than 140,000 Instagram follow ersand 72,000 followers on Twitter—big numbers for politics only content, especially given the site's ‘non-partisan approach. (In spite of the focus on the ‘TiKTok generation, A Starting Point isnt active there, conceding that territory to younger posters) “Tlove the idea of getting concise information from the people who are most involved in the political pro cess, in thelr own words, without any journalistic spin,’ says Evans. "This is about understanding who these people in office are, and how they're voting.” ‘The ste gives politicians a chance to weigh in any {me on any topic. But much of the action revolves around pairs of opposing: party politicians pressing. their disagreement around current hotly debated Issues. Thus the home page recently featured du: from staffers. When I was a teenager, politics felt like something that was far away from what mattered tome. Maybe if I had had a chance to listen to EREEMUMIEeY from someone like a Katie Porter, I’d have been inspired and curious 22° NEWSWEEK.com cling videos from Republican Ohio Representative Dave Joyce and Democratic Oregon Rep. Earl Blu menauer arguing about federal cannabis policy, and. Democratic California Rep. Katie Porter exchang. ing points and counterpoints with South Dakota, Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson on eliminating the filibuster. “When I was a teenager, politics felt like something that was far away from what mattered to me,’ says Evans, “Maybe if I had had a chance to listen to powerful voices from someone likea Katie Porter, Td have been inspired and curious. ‘The youth vote has for decades been so unteli able that political campaigns considered it bare: ly worth their time and effort, compared to the more certain payoff from older voters. Millenni als, now mostly in their 30s, started to bend that curve, proving to be relatively eager voters. But the ‘younger Generation Z, which includes a raft of new voters each year, has accelerated the trend. About 55 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18-10-29 vored in the 2020 elections, compared to 444 percent in 2016, according to Tufts University's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). ‘That jump, which is bigger than other age groups saw in 2020, helped lift the youth vote to 17 percentMost ofthe short videos on Starting Point involve opposing-par politicians pressing thee USS Representative Kt Portersand voters cast theirballosin Hilleboro, Vig November 3, 2026. of al votes cast, the most since the voting age was lowered in 1970, And further increases may be in store for future elections, says CIRCLE Deputy Di rector Abby Kiesa. The 2020 increase was particu larly outsized among 18. and 19 year olds, suggesting they and the sub-18 voters who will come of age in 2022 and 2024 may bring a fresh surge in numbers centered on ever younger voters. "These kinds of In, creases among young voters are unheard of” she says. The 10- to 25-year-olds that Evans is targeting have been largely ignored by politicians. That may be because Gen Z, having been almost literally raised on Snapchat videos, has shown litle inter ¢st in traditional sources of information. “They're savyy consumers of digital media, but candidates have rarely spoken to them directly co address what Pourries. especially matters to them,” says Elizabeth Matto, director of the Center for Youth Political Partici pation at Rutgers University. “Any way elected off clals can engage them online in an unfiltered way is going to resonate with them.” It's increasingly difficult to ignore Gen 2, These young voters do more than just turn out on elec tion night: they are also quick to engage in the grassroots of politics, including petitions, cam: paigns and protests, That passion for the issues and the willingness to act on them, together with 4 social-media centric world view, is starting to re shape the political landscape. That short clips of babbling politicians can strike a chord with these youthful voters could be a harbinger of an historle shift in the American electorate. EWSWEEK.COM 23Diverse and Passionate Gen Zers are also the most diverse generation in modern American history. According to a census analysis, half of them are people of color—four per cent more than millennials and 20 percent more than Baby Boomers. That means racial justice isnt just an abstract principle they believe in—it’s often ‘personal struggle for them, their families and thelr friends. "I's not that we'e trying to be the interface between younger generations and polities” says Kas sen. But we know from our interactions with them, that they're not interested in traditional narratives” Also differentiating Gen Z are the extraordl nary events that have taken place during some of their most impressionable years. They have seen the emergence of mass shootings, in schools and elsewhere, asa standard feature of American life; they've watched cellphone and bodycam videos of Black people shot to death or suffocated by police; they've lived through four years of the most po. larizing president of modern times; they've been trapped in the deadliest pandemic in a century they've been pummeled by increasingly extreme ‘weather events, and they've watched insurrection. ists mob the Capitol asa third of Americans refuse toaccept the results ofa presidential election. Then, throw in economic upheaval that has stalled many cof them on the path to financial independence ‘These events affect everyone, of course, but 10 young people they are likely to be formative. While the full impact of these experiences on the worldviews of Gen 2s can't yet be calculated, it'sclear that asa group, they are not interested in taking any of itlying down. That became apparent after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which, Killed 17 people. “Students quickly organized polit: ical responses, not only marching, but identifying the positions that members of Congress were tak ing on gun control, and engaging other young peo ple to register to vote,” says Matto. Swedish Gen Z activist Greta Thunberg, meanwhile, demonstrated that same year how a 15-year-old could draw global Seeing that these sorts of efforts can swing elec tions and affect policy, Gen Zs have become all the more politically engaged—and impatient. “They don’t want to see that politicians are trying, and they don't want to achieve moral victories” says Brent Co 24° NEWsweEK.com hen, executive director of Generation Progress, pro agressive political advocacy group focused on yout voters. "They want to see which politicians can make Ithappen and get bills passed." To get Gen Zs to vote Inver anger and even election-swinging numbers, he says, many candidates are going to give young people the kind of attention that until now has been reserved for undecided voters in swing states. Talia Joseph, 19, is looking forward to flexing that sort of newfound political muscle. As an in coming freshman this fall at the University of Wis: consin in Madison, she is not only a youth voter but a swing-state voter as well. "People my age realize how much of an impact our vote had in 2020," she says. I like Joe Biden, but he's not perfect. If he makes any policies we don't approve of, we know \wecan pressure him.” Joseph, who's one year older ae eet I love the idea of from the people who political process, journalistic spin who these people inthan Thunberg, is active in fundraising and orga nizing aimed at turning up the heat on the admin istration in combating climate change. TikTok Power HOW ARE GEN 2S MAKING UPTHEIR MINDS ON THE issues? As the first “digital natives’—that is, people born into the age of ubiquitous internet access they're less dependent on traditional media to get 1 sense of what's happening, “My parents check the news every day to catch up on the issues," says Joseph. “My friends and I get al that from social media, By social media, she doesn’t mean Facebook and Twitter. Despite all the attention those plat. forms have attracted for their roles in influencing the last two presidential elections, Gen Zs tend to focus on YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Tik: Tok. More than 100 million Americans are active on TikTok alone, and most of them are Gen Z; in the 18 months after January 2018, activity on the platform increased eightfold. Trump started trying, unsuccessfully, to shut TikTok down in July 2020, claiming the Chinese-owned app presented a secu: nity risk It also has been ground zero for mostly progressive Gen Z activity. Case in point: when a million ticket requests came in online for a June 2020 Trump rally and only 6,200 people showed up, the difference was widely attributed to young TikTok activists eager to thwart the then- president. Chris Evans wasn't thinking about any of that back in 2017 when he used Google to search for an unfamiliar legislative acronym he had heard fon the TV news, He doesn't recall the acronym, but he clearly remembers his frustration in having 10 wade through search results that failed to deliver ‘a quick, clear answer about the policy issue he was concerned about, “You can find a 30-second video getting concise information are most involved in the without any This is about understanding office are, and how they're voting PoLrTrcs on how to do almost anything,” Evans says, “But where do you go to get a quick breakdown on a political issue, and hear what both sides have to say about it? Ie felt like a big missing piece to me ‘To provide that piece, Evans recruited Kassen, a friend since working together on the 2011 film Puncture, and Kiani. The three co-founded A Start {ng Point to fill the gap in here are the issues online information. Since they were aiming at Gen Z, they decided to stick with short videos. To keep the tenor {informational—and to avoid vicious, snarky food: fights—the site has no comments or “kes.” *You have these curious young voters who throw in a po- Uical comment on a website, and suddenly they're bombarded with vitriol says Evans. We didn’t want tobe part of that nasty landscape” Evans was also determined to let both sides have their sayThat wasa tough decision for him, headmits, RESTLESS GENERATION ‘Asa group, Gen Zdoes not take things ing down. Clockvie ram let: ‘Grete Thunborg showed how a 15-year-old could raw global attontion tothe environments studentsin Tras during ‘the presidential primary inMaren: and teens at ‘the Rock and Rl Hal of Fame in Cloveland, Ohio.Pourtresot G5 Cer \ aoa} given thathe himselfis an outspoken progressive. "We sawalotof people in one party rally showa shortage of integrity in recent years,” he says. “That makes it hard to put them on thesame planeas the other party” The feeling at first, was mutual. Many of the con servative members of Congress Evans approached turned him down initially, fearing that yet another Hollywood liberal was out to make them look bad. ona left-leaning media outlet. But heslowly won over many skeptics by, he says, giving them equal time, ‘with no partisan editing or editorializing. Still, the site draws the line at falsehoods, baseless claims and. conspiracy theories, There are Republicanson the site arguing for tighter restrictions on voting, but none cite the alleged theft of the 2020 election as justifica ton. “Whether welike what they say or not, everyone ‘we have on the site deserves to be there, because they ‘won the vote ofthe people” says Kian. “We give them ‘achanceto say what they stand for, without hyperbo le,and without anyone interpreting it” The videos on A Starting Point offer a chance to see politicians when they aren't pandering to the hard line voters of their partes or sparring with journalists, probing for controversy. The results often have the feet ofa relaxed conversation, Some are purely per sonal: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recalls none video that he first got hooked on politics after a fellow student at Harvard invited him to knock on doors for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential pri mary campaign—an offer Schumer accepted only because he wanted a break from his gloom at having just been cut from the freshman basketball team. Others show members of Congress known for being combative looking for ways to turn down the heat, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas, insists that despite sharp divisions in the Senate, members of Congress engage in a great deal of behind the-scenes bipartisan cooperation NEWSWEEK.COM 27People my age realize how much of an impact our vote had in 2020. I like Joe Biden, but he's not perfect. If he makes any policies we don’t approve of, we know we can ‘on many issues. And there are frank assessments: Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, ‘warns in one video that bipartisanship won't get far until more voters get behind it—a weak prospect In the current political Most of the videos show 1 bers making their ceases on the issues in a calmer, less pointed wai than they might on Meet he Press. han Omar, the ‘outspoken Democratic representative from Minne sota, po ye Trump administration for abandoning the Iran deal that limited that country’s nuclea Biden administration for being too slow to rejoin it. he insistence on letting both sides have theft unfiltered say appeals to the Gen Z. cohort. I's not that they're split between the two ps fifth of them approve of Trump, and about two thirds voted for Biden—the biggest margin by far n and tweaks the feapon prog of any age gt in modern history. At the same time, progressive open-minded than ‘older voters: third of non-Republican Gen Zs say ‘oup, and the most lopsided youth vote young voters appear to be mor that they'd consider voting Republican in future lections, according to a 2020 survey conducted by the non-profit Niskanen Center: Regardless of their political affiliation, Gen Zs tend to resent either side trying to win them over with spin, says Matto, which may be why asite like A Starting Point, which is willing to provide unfiltered political exposition, is likely o resonate with them, "They craveand seek out authenticity” she says. “This eration that can spot BS mile away Jeremy Sutherland, a 23-year-old who gradual ed Northwestern University last year with a degree in theater, exemplifies that in both sides, “I'm pretty liberal look my opinion on that,” he says. But I place value on hearing from people who dis agree with me, and I want to understand where their opini . and I'm not reall to chan ins are coming from, non-partisan approach helped A Starting Point catch on as a classroom 28 NEWSWEEK.com Pourtres tool, viaa partnership with the Close Up Founda tion, which offers a range of civic engagement pro: grams to high schools, Another partnership, with grassroots political organizing group BridgeUSA, is Increasing the site’ visibility on college campuses. An Overwhel ‘may seem unnecessary, given that they're already unusually engaged, But as big as their voting num bers were in 2020, notes CIRCLE’ Kiesa, there are reasons to believe there's room to improve on them ‘Young peopl 1g Force re much less likely to be contactedHOW TO SAVE AMERICA Cheis Evans wants to use his celebrity to get young voters engaged in politics CCHRIS EVANS IS BEST KNOWN FOR portraying Captain America, who ‘teams up with other superheroes inthe Marvel Cinematic Universe to form the Avengers. In rallife, Evans has joined director and actor Mark Kassen and health care entrepreneur and phitan thropist Joe Kiani to launch a website ‘and app called A Starting Point, with the aim of getting young people interested in learning more about their lected officials and political issues. Evans and Kassen met with News- week Contributor David H. Freedman via Zoom to talk about some of the obstacles they've had to overcome, the success they've had so far and their ambitions for the project. "Newsweek: What wore the biggest challenges you faced in getting A ‘Starting Point up and running? (Chris Evans: First we had to collact the interviews, For the first year ‘and a half before we launched, most of what we did was going to Washington, DC., and knocking on doors to try to collect these inter- Views. We needed to gamer trust. Mark Kassen: | dor't know if youre ‘awaveof this, but Chisis famous. ‘Sometimes lust forget that, because Ive known him a longtime and to me he's just a normal person. So | was ‘surprised when we went to DC. at how ‘excited and nervous people were to meet him. Alot of them told us that celebrities often come to DC. to try to tell them what to do, They liked that ‘we were asking them to talk about ‘what they think. And they liked that ‘we wererit ust looking forthe most 30° NEWswEEK.com ‘exciting, sony stories. We asked them to talk about some ofthe issues that aro important to them and their states, and that they usually dont get to talk about CCE: Ite a lt easier now that word ie getting around. These days we're fielding incoming calls from elected officials whe want to be included, Wis Do you hope A Starting Point can address the extreme polarization among voters and in government? CCE: The site wasnt designed to try ‘and promote bipartisanship. Ths isn't a therapy session forthe left and the right so we can all figure out how to sing kumbaya. It was created to pro- mote engagement with young people. Ifwe don't get more young people to vote well never get a government that accurately reflects who we are as a country. We felt the best way to fight ‘apathy and promote engagement is to show the full spectrum of opi fons that are out there. Alot of those opinions are different from mine, but Pourtics | wanted to keep that outofit and lat young people decide for themselves. MK: The two parties seem to shape the narratives we hear on diferent media. ‘outlets, We wanted oficials to tlk to ue about the issues without the narratives. CE: Young people can detect journal istic spin aswell as anyone can. Our guiding principle—and I thinkit’spret- ty unique to us~is that we provide this information in a completely unbiased way. The content comes directly from ‘elected officials. Mark had a fantastic idea about our doing profiles ofcif- ferent officals, but | was immediately wary, because it would be hard to do that without letting our own opinions affect how we do them. That could be in part because | am so politically vocal on social media, and! want to make sure that | never lt that infiltrate this site. Iwas really worried that we wore going to be branded as some sort ‘of leftist propaganda machine, that there was some sort of liberal agen- ! ‘da, But that hasrit happened etal een CO RC RD ae NW: Howis A Starting Point going to ‘evolvein the coming months and years? CCE: We'e used tomaking movies, where wien the movie's done you release it and you cart make any adjustments toi, you cant go back and polish and Improve't. But this site isa ving thing. ‘We can fixthis car while we're diving itdown the road, There were certain things that were high priority right out ‘ofthe gate, including getting elected of- ficial to tak to us, and getting eyeballs to thesite. But now that we've done that, wo'telooking at what else we can do. ‘We're thinking about Mark’s ideas about profiles, or doing other sorts of deep dives. We could take a camer crew and go into an elected official'sNw: Have you thought about moving outside of polities? (CE: Yeah, Ie love doing anything that moves toward providing concise information directly from those who ‘are most informed or most involved on a particular topi, whether its science, the economy or history The essence of this site is about understanding who's in office, regardless of their level of expertise in an area, because theyre voting on things that wil change you life. Butwhen you'e talking to elected officials about the economy, sometimes you cant help thinking, shouldet we be talking toan economist about this? Orit could be sports Like you could get LeBron James to teach you the triangle offense. There are a million ‘ways this could evolve, and to be honest most of them would proba bly be more exciting than politics, MK: Weve been approached by people in finance, where we all struggle to figure some things out. How do we ‘apply our guiding principles to that, or eS CORRS OCR Meee CM ORM CC district and maybe have that person show you around, lke a mini-docu mentary. think we can avoid that be- inga road toward partisanship; well do it with both Democrats and Repub licans. As we establish ourselves as a credible piace for honest, balanced information with no spin, we can start bending the mechanisms alittle more to start asking more questions. MK: We're not going to be investiga tive journalists. But one way we do want to expand our coverages to go beyond Congress to state legislatures. Weil start doing that next year, and eld lke to eventually involve as many levele of government as possible, CE: Mark alse had the dea of having raphs by NINO MUNOZ ‘guest commentaries from influential people who aren't elected officials t Would be a litte like establishing an ‘online guest house, where a celebrity ‘or someone else might drop in and do a quick thing onthe environment, for ‘example. It would be a good way to ‘get more eyeballs on what we've got here. I've already reached out toa few people about appearing, though some people can be alittle scared about weighing in publicly on the issues. IK: We just have to make sure that we don't suddenly turn this nto famous people interviews, and that we dont do things that people can get c’loewhere, We just have to keep trying different things to see what works other areas, ike health care? We're trying to understand where we ‘can be useful, and as this rows, well continue to develop those use cases. (CE: We're lucky that were self fund: ed, hich frees us from the kind of pressures that other companies have ‘to.do what works for their Bottom line, We have the freedom to move ‘at our own pace and figure out what vill do the most good. One thingwe really wanted to do from the begin- ning was to create ways for in-person engagement in events. Thats great ‘way to got people excited. 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