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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Jun 2020

      1. One of the interesting things about Trump's tweet of the "white power" video is that the cultural civil war has spread inside The Villages, the massive Florida retirement communities that are the heartland of Trumpism.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Jun 2020

      2. As @MikeGrunwald has wonderfully described, the Villages were crucial not just for Trump's victory in 2016 but the continuing dominance of the GOP in Florida. Huge retirement communities filled with people fearful of cultural and demographic change.pic.twitter.com/VrEmxD0jxf

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Jun 2020

      3. Covid -- and Trump's botched response to it -- has made seniors a swing vote in a way they haven't been for last 2 decades. One big question in the election is what do older Americans fear more: covid-19 or people of color?

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Jun 2020

      4. But having the 77-year-old Biden competing against the 74-year-old Trump for the senior vote does reinforces the feeling that America is becoming a gerontocracy: no country for young people but like the USSR of the 1970s dominated by an aging cadre stuck in the past.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Jun 2020

      5. Recently @cushbomb had some bleak thoughts about what it means for old people to dominate the election as they do: "The electorate is old. The electorate is dying. The country is dying. The contest is between two different ways to be a dying old person."pic.twitter.com/4dnszPOoeU

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Jun 2020

      6. But contra this bleak picture, the fact remains that the gerontocracy can't last forever. As in the USSR, there will have to be a generational shift at some point. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-geriatric-race-war/ …

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        1. William Earl Burns‏ @williameburns13 29 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          How did that work out for the USSR?

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        2. RenoSparksCow‏ @RenoCow 29 Jun 2020
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          1946 was 74 years ago but we’ve only elected ONE President born AFTER 1946, and this fact will remain true until at least 2024, perhaps even until 2028 if Biden serves 2 terms

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        3. realFredWaltman‏ @realFredWaltman 29 Jun 2020
          Replying to @RenoCow @HeerJeet

          But if you move the baseline back a year to 1945 (a more natural cutoff) you have seven Presidential terms vs three for those born before (since 1980 when someone born in 1945 would be eligible)

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        1. Glyn Williams‏ @Carniphage 29 Jun 2020
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          Once Covid gets into those Florida retirement communities (with no one wearing a mask). It will start killing like John Wick.pic.twitter.com/CyOab3CFOV

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        2. Tim Wayne‏ @tmwayne 29 Jun 2020
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          Trudeau is the first Prime Minister younger than I am. I expect that Harper will be the last Prime Minister older than me.

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        3. Nice Fine Boy‏ @NiceFineBoy 29 Jun 2020
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          How old are you?

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        2. Jamie Ross‏ @jross252 29 Jun 2020
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          Gerontocracy can last awhile imo - our country is getting older and older and older! The biggest cohort of white people is around 60 now. The oldest boomers are only 75. You generationalists need to apprehend the impact of the fertility decline/demographic transition.pic.twitter.com/kaV6crbmal

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        2. spherulitic‏ @spherulitic 29 Jun 2020
          Replying to @tcleveland4real @HeerJeet

          Are you sure about that? Healthcare you can't afford to access is pretty bad ...

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