A statistic that stopped me in my tracks a few years ago: the average age of a GOP committee head is _thirty years_ younger than their Dem counterparts.
This isn’t a party that’s eating their seed corn: this is a party that finished the seed corn last year and is gnawing on the packing material.
This isn’t a party that’s eating their seed corn: this is a party that finished the seed corn last year and is gnawing on the packing material.
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it’s a problem writ large, everywhere, not just in politics. depriving people in their 30s and 40s and 50s of the opportunity to grow into leadership sets them up for failure because they will make all the same mistakes any new leader does, but the stakes will be higher
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If your goal is to ensure that talent goes elsewhere, it's great.
Rs keep kicking out their own party members in primaries and then losing traditionally safe seats to Ds
there's a lot that goes into *why* this keeps happening (and why it's bad for everyone), but it also helps explain a large reason they are "young"
that's not really supposed to go down that way, especially if it's "working"
But it is also the case that inter party fighting has decapitated their congressional leadership so many times it’s just a bunch of nobodies now
but theirs is more chaotic and not at all structured, going after established Rs that ultimately did nothing obvious to earn their ire
they literally primaried eric cantor back in 2014, one of their House leaders at the time