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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Gerontocracy Hurts US Politics

It's time for Biden and his entire gerontocrat cohort to step down. They are past it
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/27/biden-mcconnell-old-age-retire-us-politicians-gerontocracy/
Republicans tend somewhat gracelessly to share these frequent ‘Biden fails’ online. But yesterday’s Mitch episode shows that Washington’s gerontocratic slide is bi-partisan.The Grand Old Party, as the Republicans are often called, lives up to its name in more ways than one. Chuck Grassley, the current Republican president pro tempore of the Senate, is now 89 years old. And Donald J Trump, the overwhelming favourite to be the Republican presidential nominee next year, will be 78 by the time next year’s elections come around.