It is surprising to some onlookers to see the Democrat Party that, in polling if not turnout, attracts a majority of young people but retains individuals in their 70s and 80s — figures from another time — in positions of power and as presidential candidates.
This phenomenon would be easily explainable in some ways for the GOP, as it tends to revere tradition and empirical evidence. So naturally Republicans would gravitate to those of relative experience and wisdom.
But the Democrats have glorified change for the sole sake of change since at least the 1960s.
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