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kleinbl00 · 2 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Age of Influentialism: "The [MAGA] hatred may have been old, but the transmission was genuinely novel."
It's been ten or more years now since some wag compared the average age of the cabinet, president, supreme court and heads of Congress and Senate to the age of the Polituro in 1986 to point out that the body that elevated Gorbachev is substantially younger than the body that elevated Hilary Clinton. If you look at both bodies as sclerotic organs of self-preservation, the Republicans attempted to sideline their populist and failed; the Democrats attempted to sideline their populist and succeeded. The Republican party is winning but is an organization virtually unrecognizable from 2015 while the Democratic party is losing but would be perfectly familiar to Tip O'Niell.