Nancy Pelosi. Steny Hoyer. Pat Leahy. Jim Clyburn. Anthony Fauci. Dianne Feinstein. Their combined age is 500 — and until a few months ago, they were running the country. Now they’re shadows of their former selves, headed to the greener pastures of retirement, book deals or the backbenches of the House of Representatives.

Over the past few months, the Democratic Party’s leadership has transitioned from the Silent Generation to a mixture of baby boomers and Gen Xers. This, of course, isn’t welcome news to America’s Silent Generation president, who it’s rumored will announce his reelection in the coming weeks.

Joe Biden will be eighty-two on Election Day in 2024 — and would leave the White House at the ripe old age of eighty-six were he to win a second term. He just defied history with a not-horrible midterm election, so things must be looking great for him, right?

Wrong.

[The problems facing Democrats with Biden have less to do with his age, and more to do with Biden being Biden. And don’t forget that Republicans have their own gerontological issues too, especially if Donald Trump wins the nomination next year and Mitch McConnell remains in charge of the Senate Republican caucus. — Ed]