“There is an element of, at some point, you age out,” the former president said.
Former President Barack Obama is urging the Democratic Party to invest in younger candidates if it wants to come out victorious in the 2026 midterm elections and, eventually, the 2028 presidential election.
In an interview with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen that was published Saturday, the 64-year-old said part of the reason his own elections were so successful was because he was young at the time.
“I’m a pretty healthy 64, feel great, but the truth is, half of the references that my daughters make about social media, TikTok and such, I don’t know who they’re talking about,” he said. “There is an element of, at some point, you age out. You’re not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through.”
Huh, look at that.
I wonder if the people that attack Obama from the left but also buy into the ageism that seems to be all the rage now (I mean, surely it’s not a plot from the Epstein Class to have everyone infighting at the bottom level and not look up, right? Divvying people up even further by generations and microgenerations resulting in even more atomization than we have already creates lots and lots of solidarity, right? ) will have any epiphany here.