Young Americans are actually not becoming more progressive.

A young boy wearing a Donald Trump wig holds up a campaign sign during Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign rally at the Bank of Colorado Arena on the campus of University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado on October 30, 2016. A young boy wearing a Donald Trump wig holds up a campaign sign during Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign rally at the Bank of Colorado Arena on the campus of University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado on October 30, 2016. (Jason Connolly—AFP/Getty Images)

For years, it has been said that Republicans have a “young-people problem” — the party, it was assumed, just couldn’t attract young voters. Yet despite predictions it would experience an “historic trouncing” in 2016, among young voters, 37% of young adults voted for Trump…