“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.”
The longer you’re in politics, the more “connections” you make. So there may be some relationship between these things.
It’s not like the “connections” don’t reach out to the politicians.
Sure, I’m not saying anything about who initiates it. Just that over time they accumulate, so older politicians are likely to have more.
This is actually a bad reason to have age limits.
you can find unscrupulous people in all walks of life. That’s the primary issue with this, not how old they are.
The reason to get old people out of politics is actually quite simple. most of them will be dead in 20 years. There’s no reason for them to make plans more than five years, because they’ll probably be dead in five years.