Generation-Z for Change, Youth Astroturf, and the Biden White House’s Plan for Re-Election

Last Thursday, at a White House event for progressive groups hosted by Press Secretary Karine Jean- Pierre, whose presentations are not designed to invigorate either viewers or journalists, a young attendee broke into the scheduled speeches with a protest; when a staffer approached to escort her out he was uncharacteristically waved off by Jean-Pierre, who told him to “let her speak.”  Elise Joshi, the young woman, described herself as speaking for “a million young people” by “channeling the strength of my ancestors and generation” then went on to condemn the Biden Administration’s permits for oil and gas pipelines, in a segment which quickly made news on Instagram and Twitter.  But Joshi isn’t exactly a pleading voice in the wilderness; she’s the executive director of the progressive advocacy organization Gen-Z for Change, which is the most influential young activist organization in Washington, D.C.  As this Thursday tableau demonstrated, Gen-Z for Change is also the newest arrow in a gerontocratic Administration’s re-election quiver: a youth “Astroturf” group which purports to represent the rising grassroots and “speak truth to power” but is really part of the power configuration it says it’s fighting against.  

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