Generation X Takes On the Gerontocracy

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

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Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announces her run for president in an image from an undated social media video released February 14, 2023.

Nikki Haley via Instagram/via Reuters

‘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.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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