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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016

      1. Has anyone looked at the way increased life-spans contributes to political polarization?

      18 replies 35 retweets 122 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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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.

      2 replies 25 retweets 51 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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      3. And of course the two parties -- indeed the two coalitions -- skew differently in terms of age.

      2 replies 9 retweets 21 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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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.

      6 replies 15 retweets 37 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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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.

      5 replies 16 retweets 36 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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      6. Age polarization & political polarization tied to other forms of polarization. White America is considerably older than POC America.

      5 replies 12 retweets 38 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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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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      David Niven @nivenpolitics
      Note to Republicans (Re: future) Most common age (mode) White: 55 African American: 24 Latino: 8 Multiracial: <1 http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article88162727.html …
      3 replies 18 retweets 37 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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      Jeet Heer Retweeted Will Jordan

      8. There's a long running trend of Republican presidential candidates getting older:https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/766125888698249216 …

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      Will JordanVerified account @williamjordann
      Trump & Clinton are old, but only GOP candidates have gotten older as a longterm trend https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/766120900336820225 … pic.twitter.com/eQlF8JRUpB
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016

      9. The sheer size of the boomer cohort combined with increased life spans has had a distorting effect on politics, delaying change.

      9:32 PM - 17 Aug 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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          10. In retrospect, Obama's presidency was the false dawn of post-boomer politics. But after Clinton, real dawn will come.

          4 replies 21 retweets 75 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2016
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          11. In fact, given size of boomer cohort, when they move off the historical stage politics could shift rapidly in many different ways.

          8 replies 24 retweets 72 likes
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        1. Julius Flywheel  🇺🇦AZ2&Pfz3  💉 💉 💉 💉 💉‏ @JuliusFlywheel 18 Aug 2016
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          delaying change and holding treasure..it's skewed the housing market in Oz so profoundly it's almost considered class war here

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