A comment in a recent NYT article, that sums up the current moment:
When I was a much younger man, the party of "progress" and "the future" and "youth" was the Democratic Party. The GOP represented the staid, stuffy old guard.
My, how that's flipped. The Democratic brand is quickly becoming that of the party of the gerontocracy and of senescence.
Biden is the most obvious and recent example, but there's plenty more: Diane Feinstein died in office (and wasn't lucid for the last two years of her term). So did RBG, whose stubborn refusal to retire when Obama requested she do so is partly responsible for the lopsided court we have today. Pelosi has even hinted that if the Dems were to take back the House, she'd consider becoming Speaker again.
The party that can't shut up about how "DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE" is one led by octogenarians who seemingly think they have earned the privilege to hold office until death.
No wonder the young are increasingly veering to the right (it doesn't help that liberals have become puritanical scolds).
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/politics/dnc-biden-nomination.html