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The party needs a polite way to usher politicians toward retirement.

The Congress member framed the NYC mayor’s race as a referendum on the Democratic Party at a rally for Zohran Mamdani.

Experts USA TODAY spoke with said they’re unlikely to know whether Biden’s baton pass to Harris marked an end to the gerontocracy until after the 2024 election.

The 47-year-old Californian has been a member of the House for just over two years.

Gerontocracy transcends government as a full-scale social phenomenon, in which older people accumulate power of different kinds, and then retain it. This form of power is both old and new.

Experts USA TODAY spoke with said they’re unlikely to know whether Biden’s baton pass to Harris marked an end to the gerontocracy until after the 2024 election.

"We have a sclerotic gerontocracy," posted 48-year-old Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) in December. Khanna's outburst on X was provoked by the revelation that an 81-year-old Rep. Kay Granger (R ...

The Democratic gerontocracy has allowed the bypassing of the system, as Barack Obama discouraged Joe Biden and effectively installed Hillary Clinton as the nominee in 2016, ...

The Upside of Gerontocracy Representative Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) attends a House Rules Committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's plan for extensive tax cuts, on Capitol Hill, in ...

The Granger case, along with new reporting making clear that Joe Biden has served as a diminished president, is forcing gerontocracy onto the agenda in Washington.Aside from Biden and Granger ...