A Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton Prez Race Would be a DISASTER for Millennials

George W. Bush says his younger
brother Jeb should run for president. Bill Clinton says “I don’t
know what Hillary’s going to do, but whatever it is, I expect to
support it.” So the former Florida governor and former senator and
secretary of state kinda sorta have the backing of family (fwiw,
Jeb’s ma doesn’t him to run).

More important than what their kin think is the simple fact that
a Clinton-Bush math-up in 2016 would be a disaster for Millennials
and other Americans under the age of 65.

From
my latest column at Time.com:

If it’s far from clear what sort of personal calculus at
which Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton may yet arrive, there should be
no question that a Clinton-Bush race would be bad for those of us
not related to either. America has never been particularly fond of
dynasties (apart from psychotics,
who really likes the Yankees or the
Kennedys?), and representatives of one or both of these families
have been running for president basically since at least 1980. More
importantly, their clans have been central players in an
increasingly vicious and rancorous era in politics whose chief
effect has been to drive a record number of Americans to declare
themselves to be political
independents. If we’re so concerned about inequality
in America, what sort of message does it send to strivers that we
can’t go a decade without gifting a Bush or a Clinton free housing,
use of a private jet and the mother of all expense
accounts?…

Under Jeb’s brother and Hillary’s former boss, the
Boomer-led government has racked up debt that younger Americans
will be paying off for generations if not centuries to
come….

The fact that more and more young people are living
with their parents is usually seen as something approaching a
tragedy for both kids and parents. You can’t move out if you don’t
have a job. Now comes word that Baby Boomers are refusing to
retire because they feel forever young. Can’t the White House
at least be one place in America where a younger American can
finally move out to?

Read the whole thing.