Checks and Balance: Boomers KO’d

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Checks and Balance: Boomers KO’d
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:34:23
• Published: 2020-09-11 17:42

Baby-boomers have dominated American politics since the 1990s, but this election may be their last stand. Shifting demographics do not favour Donald Trump, the boomer-in-chief. Younger Americans are more diverse, more educated, more likely to vote Democrat. Is the boomer era over?

We speak to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, look back to what Barack Obama called the “psychodrama” of boomer politics, and ahead to what might replace it.

John Prideaux, The Economist's US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent.

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