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Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Druke. Okay, boomers. This

episode is for you. In his new book, Washington Post National Columnist Philip Bump, are used

that many of the fizzures that the country is facing today, politically, economically,

culturally, has to do with the baby boomers getting old. Boomers have been a force in America

since birth. In 1945, the population in the U.S. was about 140 million. Over the next

19 years, 76 million babies were born, a tripling of the annual births on average for two

decades. Philip argues that today, the country is in the midst of a new transition from a

world dominated by the needs and desires of boomers to whatever comes next. The book is

called Aftermath, the last days of the baby boom and the future of power in America.

Philip, welcome to the podcast. I'm very happy to be here. Thank you.

Did I do a decent job of describing the overarching thesis of your book and what would you like

to add in terms of the argument that you're trying to make? No, it's very fitting to do

it sort of numerically, which is the way I think and I think we fit to the podcast. But

I think that one of the central points of the book is that it's hard for us to appreciate

the scale of the baby boom. The point you made about how more than half the population

was born in the 20 years after 1945 is staggering to think about. I mean, essentially, we would

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