Neither the Donald Trump fans nor the Hillary Clinton fans want to hear it, but the two politicians have more in common than either of the presidential candidates wants to acknowledge, writes Ira Stoll. Age-wise, they are both a kind of last gasp of the Baby Boom generation.
As Michael Kinsley notes in Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide, seven members of the World War II generation were president, for a total of 32 years. But “the boomers had just two presidents, Clinton and Bush the younger, over sixteen years, before the citizenry said, ‘That’s enough. Let’s move on.'”
Kinsley apparently did not account for the possibility that, after President Obama, who was born in 1961, the voters would turn the clock backward instead of moving ahead to a relative youngster like Ted Cruz or Sen. Marco Rubio, writes Stoll. But both Trump and Clinton were born in the 1940s.
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