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    1. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      Let's talk about age and the Presidency, shall we? Democratic Presidential candidates are gathering to debate tonight in Houston, so the subject is timely. First, a couple of historical notes. This will be a thread.

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    2. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      2. First, the last five newly elected Democratic Presidents (that is, excluding Truman and Lyndon Johnson, who were already President when they ran for election) included three men in their 40s (Kennedy, Clinton, Obama) and two in their early 50s (Franklin Roosevelt, Carter).

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    3. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      3. Second -- and again, excluding incumbent Presidents -- a Democratic Presidential candidate has beaten a younger Republican twice: once in 1912 (Wilson, slightly older than both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft) and 1856 (Buchanan).

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    4. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      4. Today, the Democratic part of the electorate skews younger; the Republican part skews older. Youth has been an electoral advantage for Democratic Presidential candidates historically; it should be an advantage today, particularly with an elderly Republican incumbent.

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    5. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      5. Yet polls show the three leading Democratic Presidential candidates now are all people in their 70s. This is a remarkable fact. It's not been commented on enough.

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    6. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      6. This may be b/c other candidates & journalists fear offending older voters by suggesting an older person may not be up to the rigors of the Presidency for four years. What I'd like to suggest is....an older person may not be up to the rigors of the Presidency for four years.

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    7. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      7. The President we have is not. Donald Trump maintains the work schedule of an affluent retiree, full of bad TV, golf and chatting with friends. He is sedentary and fat. He neglects his duties for leisure. He shows evident cognitive decline and erratic behavior.

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    8. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      8. I'm perfectly willing to be fair. These last observations do not apply to either Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. And it is certainly possible for people to assume very large responsibilities late in life: Churchill, Deng, Adenauer.

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    9. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      9. It's possible, but it's not typical. And there's no job like the Presidency, as four living ex-Presidents can tell us. The only other example we have of a President beginning a term in his 70s was Reagan in his second. It offers little encouragement.

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      Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

      10. Reagan defused concerns about his age during the 1984 campaign about as deftly as anyone ever has or ever will. But the concerns were well founded. Had the mid-'80s been a less benign period, the country and the world could have been in real trouble.

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        2. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

          11. A Presidential nominee over 70 would mean, for the Democrats, passing up a major advantage in electoral politics. It is also a risk in terms of being sure the next President will be able to handle the burdens of the office, during what is likely to be a very difficult time.

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        3. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

          12. Now, full disclosure: if I had to choose right now among all the Democratic candidates now in the race, my pick would be Warren. She seems to me, in brief, to be the smartest and have the clearest idea of how she wants to run the Executive Branch.

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        4. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

          13. If I didn't think that I wouldn't go near a 70-year-old candidate; even thinking it, some discomfort accompanies my preference. It is passing strange to me that the logical successors to an historic, popular, and relatively successful Democratic President should all be....

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        5. Joseph Britt‏ @Zathras3 12 Sep 2019

          14....people much older before they faced the voters than he was when he left office. This isn't how succession normally works. But those are the cards on the table; I'm just saying we ought to look at them honestly, and not deceive ourselves. [end]

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        2. Anthony Calabrese  🇺🇸 🇮🇹‏ @AnthonyCalabr12 13 Sep 2019
          Replying to @Zathras3

          The mid 80s were not exactly a benign period. The USSR still had a thousand tanks a week from the Rhine, there was political conflict in Europe over Pershing and Cruise, hard fought proxy wars in Central America, Africa and Afghanistan plus Iran in Lebanon.

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        3. ani diPiombo‏ @villereal 13 Sep 2019
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          also, elliott abrams was fairly busy overseeing mass murder in central america

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        1. ani diPiombo‏ @villereal 13 Sep 2019
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          reagan's reign wasn't particularly benign if you were murdered by a death squad

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        1. Dark Kent‏ @Ajenebk 13 Sep 2019
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          Reagan diffused those concerns during the campaign only to be unable to do his job the last two years. If the internet existed in 1987-88 Reagan’s out of it would have been a significant story with a ton of inside tips floating around Twitter about his decline.

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