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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: Will Future Generations Shift More to the Left?

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Philip Bump joins The Michael Steele Podcast to discuss his book, "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America." The pair discuss how the baby boom has disadvantaged other generations and who is going to control politics, wealth and power once the boomer generation ends.

This is an excerpt from the episode "What the End of the Baby Boom Means for America: With Philip Bump."

Check out the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Last-Future-Power-America/dp/0593489691/ref=sr_1_12?qid=1673369407&refinements=p_n_publication_date%3A1250228011&s=books&sr=1-12

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0:44.0

Check out what's going on right now.

0:47.0

Welcome back everybody to Michael Steel Podcast.

0:50.0

We are doing a deep dive into the new book, The Aftermath,

0:54.0

and the next day's of the baby boom in the future of Power in America.

0:58.0

Its author is Washington Post Phenom.

1:03.0

I love your work at the post.

1:06.0

I've been following it for years, Philip Bump.

1:09.0

And so when we went to break, we were talking about the things that we kind of

1:17.0

misconstruer, misunderstand about the baby boom generation,

1:21.0

where their power may or may not be centered, the economics, all of that.

1:26.0

But there is a generation in my view that's giving them a run for the money that,

1:31.0

and actually, and I would, I appreciate the fact that you actually gave me a quote in the books.

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