Ben Domenech: Don’t Underestimate The Level Of Boomer-Resentment Among Democrats Under 45
Ben Domemench commented on the role of “boomer-resentment” for voters under 50 on the “FOX News Sunday” panel.
BEN DOMENECH: When it comes to Graham Platner, I think the real problem for Democrats here is that the authority figures within the Democratic coalition have lost so much of their respect and authority after the Harris experience. Basically, every decision they make-whether it’s replacing a candidate or saying somebody doesn’t pass muster, that they missed red flags, et cetera-can be depicted as a war between this populist movement and the establishment. We’ve seen it play out in the past on the Republican side as well. This has a lot of the same flavor to it. When I look at Platner, who is also a flawed candidate, he’s getting pushed out at a point when private polling has him down by single digits. Can you really go back and say this guy could not have won against Susan Collins despite that baggage? I’m not sure you actually can. SUSAN PAGE: There is a was inside the Democratic Party, and it isn’t really over the socialist position of abolishing the U.S. Senate or having the president and Supreme Court be subordinate to the House. The war is over economic populism-in the sense that a lot of Americans feel the economy is not working for them. They don’t think Democrats are fighting for them. They worry about the wealth gap, the threat of AI to their jobs, and who is speaking up for them. Someone like Graham Platner taps into a core part of that. BEN DOMENECH: There’s one more element of that which we should not underestimate: the level of Boomer resentment within the Democratic coalition. If you look at voters under 45, the way they view their inability to buy houses, they see wealth having been redistributed to older Americans. When they look at people like Chuck Schumer, they view him as the enemy-not as someone they need to respect as the leader of a party he’s been part of for as long as he has. GILLIAN TURNED: They view him as someone who represents everything they resent based on the dwindling chances of young people achieving the American dream.
