Democrats’ Problem Is Not The 70-Somethings Leading The Party

Democrats’ Problem Is Not The 70-Somethings Leading The Party

• Their problem is activist types are trying to fill the vacuum created when their extremism decimated a generation of more mainstream Democratic politicians.

"Andrew Ferguson, one of America’s great working writers, asks of the 2020 presidential field: “Why have national Democrats and not national Republicans fallen under the tyranny of the 70-somethings?” 
But the main answer he offers—vanity and self-indulgence—seems like a small part of the problem and does not explain the difference between the parties.
...Consider the Obama era. 
Over the course of Barack Obama’s tenure as president, the Democrats lost more than 1,030 seats in state legislatures, governor’s mansions, and Congress.
As Lisa Lerer wrote for the Associated Press after the 2016 election: “The defeats have all but wiped out a generation of young Democrats..."
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