What Will Trump's Impact Be on Millennials?
As usual, millennials didn't show up in massive numbers for the 2016 presidential election. More's the pity, since the person who will become President on January 20 does not have their best interests in mind as he takes office.
Student Loans? Forget about any measures to help you pay them off. Those will not be forthcoming in a Trump administration. In fact, it may become even more ruinous to be in default on them.
Low or No Tuition College? That's not going to happen, either.
Higher Minimum Wage? It is to laugh. It's more likely that minimum wage requirements will be loosened, allowing employers to pay even less for many jobs.
Better Employment Opportunities? I wouldn't count on that, either. Trump is for the corporations, not the workers. In his own businesses, he takes every possible opportunity to keep employees' pay low and hires guest workers wherever possible. Those are his standards, and he'll make it easier for companies to do the same.
Voting. It's important, as everyone will soon learn - the hard way.
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vote. People that rent don't vote as often as people that own homes etc... historically the more you make the more likely you are to show up. Younger people tend to have less permanent establishment. They feel less apart of the American apparatus, thus they tend to vote less. The same goes for lower income people. They tend to rent, feel less a part of the community, and thus tend to vote less. If you want some good news...more people as a percentage vote now than ever. I guess that's good. Obviously if candidate 2020 wants to win they need to go to Howard Dean's style of a string candidate in every race and strong grass roots door to door in every community. Make people feel they belong and they show up. Democrats are pushing programs to help the people that tend to be less likely to vote. It's a struggle because clearly there is a psychological element to the lack of voting among the young and low income people. Given, it's a real thing, it's clearly in the voting data, why haven't Democrats worked harder at turn out over the past 8 years. It's a question that needs answering.
and voted for Hillary. It took some of us longer than others to move from Bernie in the primary to Hillary in the general and none of us were excited about her. A lot of us had legitimate concerns about her, concerns that aren't the sensational media talking points like emails and Benghazi- rather fracking (we're arguably the most environmentally friendly generation), hawkish foreign policy (don't forget we've grown up through war. We're sick of it. And we hate being told we're unrealistic because we think our tax dollars should go to helping American people rather than disastrous regime change foreign policy that just causes more problems down the line.)
One of the things I have been most disappointed by in this election are the establishment elites of the party looking down their noses at us millennials saying we're idealistic (the horror of demanding something from our elected officials. Maybe we should let them walk over us instead?), dumb (we were discovering our candidate when he got little to no media attention in those early days. We shared videos all over social media of his time in Congress speaking against the war in Iraq, against Wall Street deregulation, standing up for gay soldiers in the 90s. He caught our interest and we researched more and talked to our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles), lazy (we were the ones funding our candidate. We were organizing, phonebanking, creating energy). If the party has learned anything from this election, it might just be that the future is indeed bright. When the party runs people we are inspired by, we will show up in force. You don't even have to worry about us voting, we will be working to get OTHER generations to vote. We WANT to have a say. As we saw with Obama, it's much easier to utilize our energy than try to fight against it. We're at a turning point in our party. Listen to what millennials are saying or risk losing an entire generation at a time when the party has been losing seats in Congress as it is.
Apologies for the small rant.. just some of my thoughts. 
