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Bold of you to assume there was ever anything better before that. Two hundred years of nearly all affluent establishment geriatric white guys, who ran against affluent establishment geriatric white guys.
But this guy's a Catholic. [Clutches pearls.]
There are a lot of historical things to bitch about as far as the ruling class, but out of 46 presidents, only Biden, trump, and reagan were above 70 while holding office. Well, I guess technically you could add Eisenhower, but he was 62 when elected. A good chunk of them where in their 40s or 50s when elected. We've never had this shit before. Shitty choices, sure. But not this shit.
The definition of 'old' has also shifted, though. Personally I don't care much how old a person are. I only care how old their ideas are.