Generation X Takes On the Gerontocracy

Generation X is the jaded generation. Maybe that’s what America needs.

‘I’m not decrepit” is the answer, more or less, that Nikki Haley gives as her reason for running for president.

It’s a sentiment that we heard previewed last week by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who contrasted herself — the youngest governor in America — with President Joe Biden, the oldest commander in chief.

Youth can’t help but be a contrast in an America that is run by a Boomer and Silent Generation gerontocracy. On the very day that Nikki Haley announced for...