I seldom have reason to challenge your always eloquent postings but voters undoubtedly tend right with age. I’m not a massive fan of polling but a recent one I saw showed support for Reform peaking in the 60-69 cohort and actually taking a slight dip in the 70+ bracket. Whilst the ‘Toryform’ vote does indeed increase with every age bracket, The Blue Team enjoys a slight uptick in support with the very oldest. A function of there being more ‘dyed in the wool’ types or the fact that it’s the only group with any form of lived experience of ‘The War’ and its related horrors I can only speculate.
Points taken Richard and the familiar drift rightwards with increasing age certainly outnumbers a drift leftwards. However, I’d contend that drift towards a traditional ‘blue’ right is a world away from a drift towards the ultra-right extremism of fascism and nazism; and those amongst we oldsters who espouse such ideology are miniscule in proportion to those who simply become more conservative.
Farage and the washed-up has-beens and never-weres he’s recruited to Reform might ostensibly be labelled ‘far-right’ but they aren’t fascists. No, that movement and those who say they’ll vote for them represent a rather desperate revolt against a political system that’s largely failed the electorate for decades and now feel they have nowhere else to go. Brexit was the same: little to do with being in the EU, much more just a kick up the collective jacksies of the establishment
However in the USA, those supposedly subordinate to Trump are an altogether darker more focussed (and younger) bunch whose planned path seems to be heading towards ultra-right authoritarianism with a malodorous whiff of fascism. Subordinate in name but anything but: Trump is just their puppet and useful idiot.
Not sure whether I’ve actually addressed your points constructively, but that’ll do me.