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Thread. @brianbeutler speaks to one aspect of yesterday’s Mueller hearings: Mueller’s age, and the advantage Beutler sees being taken of it — by Barr, by House Republicans, even (indirectly) by Pelosi. I’m not sure I agree with everything here. However....
....age is an issue in American politics today. It contributes to tangible outcomes I don’t think we can ignore. @SpeakerPelosi herself is quite elderly; her reluctance to stray from the familiar, & back impeachment in unfamiliar circumstances, may have to do in part with this.
The citizenship question Wilbur Ross wanted included in the Census might have been, had the 80-something Commerce Secretary been enough on the ball not to give an obviously false justification for it. Of course, there is also Trump himself: old, fat, with limited energy.
This is no brief against old people; I do, after all, aspire to be one myself someday. But the comfort of long-familiar names is, I fear, obscuring a source of infirmity in American democracy. I don’t know what impact it had yesterday, but I can’t be sure it had none.
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