A recent health scare for Mitch McConnell has raised concerns about the age of America's politicians.

A recent health scare for Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has reignited a debate about the age of America’s leading political figures. The 81-year-old appeared to freeze for the second time in just over a month this week while speaking to reporters. In the US, the average age in the Senate is 64 years old, while two of the leading 2024 presidential candidates - Joe Biden and Donald Trump - are over 75 years old. A range of voters who spoke to the BBC say they have concerns about what some have called America’s gerontocracy.

  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You have to admire the way [Mr McConnell] has used his power - he’s used it to the maximum that he could. But I also think it’s sad to watch. You can tell looking at him on the camera maybe that his mind knows that he’s trapped. As a human being it’s tough to watch, especially knowing the political athlete he once was.

    Mmmmmm… not really.

    I deeply resent him for being one of the two primary political figures who normalized the behavior that defines the GOP today (the other being Newt Gingrich). They’ve both done such incalculable damage to American society and politics that I genuinely feel zero sympathy whatsoever towards either of them, full stop. They both deserve every single bad thing that happens to them at this point, and they deserve far worse.