We may know the candidates of the 2052 presidential election

[buritobr]

The candidates of the 2052 US presidential election can be children, teenagers, young adults we still don't know yet, adults we still don't know yet or people who are already famous now.

The 2 major candidates in 2020 were already known in 1988. All americans knew the eccentric businessman Donald Trump and senator Joe Biden, who almost ran for the primaries.

On the other hand, in 1928, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were only boys. Nobody outside their families knew him.

[Alben Barkley]

Joe Biden DID run in the 1988 primaries. Was forced to drop out due to health problems and a speech plagiarism scandal. Trump also first publicly flirted with the idea of running for president around that time. But the idea of either ever actually becoming president would have been laughable to most Americans. Would have been incredibly surreal to tell them that they would be the two major candidates in 2020. And honestly it says a lot about how much slower our culture seems to move on compared to the past. The gulf between the the 50s and 80s seems way wider than the one between the 80s and 2010s. (Although then again, Ronald Reagan was a known actor in the 50s.)

[OSR stands with Israel]

Elise Stefanik and Jon Ossoff

[Agonized-Statism]

I doubt it. This gerontocracy seems to be an effect of the boomers' unusually long dominance. With all the political upheavals coming over climate change, automation, demographic changes, and multipolarism, politicians from the current paradigm will be as irrelevant then as those from 1956 were in 1988. And before anyone brings up Lloyd Bentsen, he was the exception rather than the rule, probably chosen in a failed attempt to cultivate nostalgia for the New Deal era. No one will be nostalgic for the politics of 2020.