The Generational Dispute Over the ‘Safe’ Choice for President

Biden makes boomer-generation Democrats feel secure. But Bernie is the choice of security for a younger generation.

David Walsh
GEN
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8 min readMar 18, 2020

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Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders at separate podiums that say “Boomer Verified” and “Millennial Verified” respectively.
Photo illustration. Image: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images

“T“The Depression was a way of life for me,” Chicago schoolteacher Elsa Poncelle told the legendary historian Studs Terkel during an interview in the late 1960s. “I…

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David Walsh
GEN
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David Austin Walsh is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. His dissertation is on the connections between the far right and the conservative movement.