David Wallace-Wells

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678 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

But it is also not the case that, like,

you know, Abdul El-Sayed is being anointed by anyone in particular, he is, you know, neck and neck or head in the polls.

And that tells us something about the Michigan electorate, maybe not determinative for the fall, maybe just indicative.

But it is also the case, I think, that there's a real signal there.

There's still something on the ground happening that we sort of need to be paying attention to.

I mean, that's... I would just... One other variable is the last one I think that David mentioned, which I think is really important, which is age.

If you're in your 40s, you know, your voters, your constituents can probably trust that unless there's some surprise, you will be capable of managing the job.

Once you're in your 70s or your 80s, people are just... The question is much more...

normal task.

Some large share of Americans in their 80s are not capable of something like running the United States from the White House.

And so the older you get, I think the more natural it is to ask these questions too, which ties it back to the broader question of gerontocracy and what it means that we're living in a world that is governed to some large degree by the

much older people.

Now, it looks a little bit less that way on the surface than it did a few years ago.

We have a vice president who's quite young.

A lot of Trump's cabinet is relatively young.

Then, you know, by the way, it's Trump, Bush, Clinton, we're all born within one year of each other, like they're all exactly the same age.

So the next cycle, we're going to be in a different generational phase here.

We're going to be at least in the presidential contest, looking at members of a different generation.

And there is turnover-

Isn't there some theory that we're going to skip entirely over Gen X?

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