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Bulwark Takes

Democrats Ditch the Past to Win the Future

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Longwell and Lauren Egan talk the Democratic Party’s generational shift, as younger leaders step up in the wake of elder congressional struggles, retirements and passings. With rising urgency and new media savvy, the next generation is starting to take the reins.

Read Lauren’s The Opposition, “The Democratic Youth (er, Young Adult) Movement Arrives”

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Hey, everybody. Sarah Longwell here,

0:21.7

publisher of the bulwark. And I'm joined by Lauren Egan newsletter writer of the opposition.

0:27.9

Lauren, what's up? How you doing? Hey, how's it going? Okay. Another good newsletter this week,

0:32.6

because you're on, you're just on my wavelength all the time, right? This is a down with the gerontocracy

0:39.1

piece. It is about the idea that the Democrats are trying to get more young people into the

0:46.1

party, but why don't you, why don't you set it up? Because I had a lot of thoughts reading this

0:50.9

that I wanted to ask you about. Yeah. What I think is really interesting,

0:54.4

if you think back to the first Trump administration, the answer to that was let's elect

0:59.7

someone who's older. Let's go back to sort of like the old guard to get us through this moment

1:05.2

and now fast forward to the second Trump administration. And that is no longer how Democrats are

1:09.5

feeling about things. And so we're really

1:11.7

starting to see kind of a shift in generational takeover. You're seeing a lot of retirements in

1:17.3

Congress right now among the like 70, 80 year olds. And you're seeing a lot of people that are in

1:22.9

their 40s or early 50s or maybe in their 30s kind of stepping up to the plate now, whether that's

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