Peter Zeihan

Fast forward 20 years and the Germans are less than a third of the population.

It's not viable anymore.

Had they started back in the 50s, it'd be a different conversation.

I mean, if there is a trend for Mandani, it's the same trend from Trump.

These are two people who never had a real job in their lives and all of a sudden are now political leaders.

We should not expect this to go well.

in New York, just like it hasn't exactly gone well in Washington.

Well, a couple of broad demographic thoughts.

As a rule, the younger cohort, 25 and under, tends to be more politically radicalized, more classically, excuse me, not classically liberal, more pejoratively liberal, woke, whatever you want to call it, and much more in favor of things like redistributed economic policies because they don't have anything to lose.

They only have the possibility of gains.

It's age math.

And that has been true in every part of the world throughout the entire modern era.

Nothing's weird there.

Flip it.

When you turn 65, your income goes away.

You're now either on a fixed income or the assets you've accrued over your life.

That's all you have.

That's all you will ever have.

And so you get a little crotchety.

And so the environment we're in today, in most of the world, the young cohort is getting smaller and smaller and smaller and more brittle and more desperate, whereas the older cohort is getting larger and larger and larger and more ossified and more unwilling to make any compromises.