Ezra Klein: Comments on Joe Biden’s age have missed his mounting strengths.
A multiple exposure image from video broadcast of President Jose Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during the State of the Union Address in Washington, Feb. 7, 2023.There is no end of commentary gently — and not so gently — urging President Joe Biden to act his age and step aside. And all else being equal, I share that sentiment. I don’t think we want a president ending his second term closer to 90 than he is to 80. But all else is never equal.
But Biden proved — and keeps proving — doubters like me wrong. He won the Democratic primary, even though voters had no shortage of fresher faces to choose from. He won the general election handily, despite Donald Trump’s vaunted talents as an insult comic and a social media force. Voters seemed perfectly happy with Biden as a communicator.
And Biden’s age has carried some quiet benefits. One is that he has deftly bridged Democrats’ generational and demographic gaps. The Democratic Party has in recent years become younger, more liberal, more educated and more online. Biden’s politics were formed in a past era, when blue-collar workers were still a core constituency, and liberal was often an epithet.
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