Ryan Burge

If you don't have that, where does your hope come from?

The Donald Trump presidency is not going to destroy America?

I wonder where the optimism comes from in a world without – I'm a person of faith.

I was a pastor for almost 20 years.

I see the world through a Christian worldview.

I think about the world in those terms.

I don't think I would be as hopeful a person if I did not have that well of optimism kind of ingrained in me as a child.

So when it all comes back to politics, there is no hope in politics, period, end of discussion.

It is not redemptive.

It is not salvific.

It is going to disappoint you more than it's ever going to inspire you.

I think a lot of young people who are non-religious are also very politically liberal and think that's where their hope lies.

And it does not lie in those things.

And by the way,

This also leads to the fertility gap, the marriage gap, like all these other things.

By the way, married people are happier than unmarried people.

People with children are happier than people who don't have children.

That is not conservative talking points.

That's just what the data says.

And at some point, we've got to say the true thing in the data over and over again, which is there are certain things that tend to make people happier.