Tuesday, September 17, 2019

"Could Warn Against the Hubris of the Present"

"If a Gen Xer doesn't win in 2020, there will be another chance in 2024. But by that time the field may be crowded with Millennials—born from 1981 to 1996—whose ranks include Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and rising Republican stars such as Representatives Dan Crenshaw and Matt Gaetz. Sandwiched between two larger and more politically consequential generations—Boomers and Millennials—Generation X may never produce a president at all."

In The Atlantic, Peter Beinart laments the fate of middle-aged politicians.

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