1. Has anyone looked at the way increased life-spans contributes to political polarization?
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2. It's notable that both Clinton & Trump are old. Imagine if politics in 1932 were dominated by people born under Lincoln.
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3. And of course the two parties -- indeed the two coalitions -- skew differently in terms of age.
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4. GOP already skews old but Trump in particular is making an old person's appeal to nostalgia: Make America Great Again.
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5. And Trump's advisors (Ailes, Manafort) are old. Their stock advice tends to be to revive old slogans: Law & Order, Silent Majority.
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6. Age polarization & political polarization tied to other forms of polarization. White America is considerably older than POC America.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted David Niven
7. One salient fact. Most common ages of different ethnic groups in USAhttps://twitter.com/nivenpolitics/status/756150620478988288 …
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Asian Americans are about 28 -- I think Native Americans in the 20s.
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