Did the gerontocracy get the proper message from the 2024 election cycle? Or is it just that the co-conspirators in one of the greatest frauds perpetrated on the American electorate has decided to get out while the getting’s good?
Jerrold Nadler’s decision to hang up his spurs after 34 years in Congress may account for both impulses. At 78 years of age, most of his contemporaries are either on the golf course … or in the Senate. Nadler told the New York Times that watching Joe Biden dodder into oblivion had a large impact on his decision to withdraw from the 2026 midterms, setting off a fight for his Manhattan seat in the House:
In a recent interview in his downtown Manhattan office, Mr. Nadler, 78, said he hesitated to step aside when he believes that President Trump is threatening the foundations of democracy. But he said he had been persuaded it was time for a changing of the guard.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Mr. Nadler said, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
Maybe his younger successor can start ‘helping’ by refusing to cover up for a senile president. Nadler talks about “the Biden thing” as though he were a spectator rather than an active participant in the fraud Democrats perpetrated, especially when they rigged the primaries to push Biden forward as the Sharp As A Tack® nominee for another four years. Biden’s infirmity was obvious for at least a couple of years before the debate with Donald Trump exposed the fraud on national television. Nadler was a long-term member of Democrat leadership. Doing the math here isn’t tough when it just amounts to simple addition.
As for “threatening the foundations of democracy,” Nadler’s departure should alleviate that somewhat. Nadler went in full-bore on the Russia-collusion hoax, leveraging politicized intelligence that had been cooked to negate and reverse an election. As House Judiciary chair, Nadler could have protected the foundations of democracy by putting a halt to those efforts and exposing them, but chose to participate in political dirty tricks instead.
Nadler’s hitting the road long after his expiration date anyway. His own caucus was about to boot him from his ranking-member status on Judiciary before Nadler stepped down. When Democrats lost the House in 2022, one might have thought that aging leaders like Nadler and Nancy Pelosi would have gotten the hint, but as the NYT points out, it took another election — and the collapse of the Biden conspiracy — before the lesson sunk in:
Mr. Nadler, who is both the longest-serving New Yorker and Jewish member of the House, had already been swept up in an intraparty reckoning over aging leaders. He was forced to give up his House Judiciary Committee leadership at the beginning of the term when it became clear a younger, more energetic colleague would beat him. Back home, he was facing a 26-year-old primary challenger.
The “younger, more energetic colleague” was Jamie Raskin, by the way. Raskin is 62 years old and had just fought a second battle with cancer at that point — successfully, thankfully. Raskin is certainly more “energetic” than Nadler, which normally would be damning with faint praise, but Raskin has always been a sparkplug. Oddly, Raskin’s name doesn’t come up once in the lengthy NYT profile of Nadler, not even in reference to this key setback. Maybe the NYT considered what it meant to cast Raskin as the vanguard of a youth movement, and how it might make it look more like Democrats finally got sick of Nadler.
So Raskin hardly amounts to evidence of a generational shift, in any case. The youth-movement members Democrats do have all tilt even farther toward the Democrat Socialist axis than Nadler or Raskin, which is why none of them are in leadership positions. And let’s not forget Pelosi, for that matter, who’s still apparently running for another term in 2026 even if she did finally relinquish her leadership post.
Nadler will toddle off in January 2027, presumably, since an earlier retirement would complicate Democrat leverage in the narrowly divided House and force New York to hold a special election. One can hope that Nadler will accelerate his plans, but he’s been around long enough to do the math … unless the investigations into Democrat politicization of the CIA and DoJ get a little too close to Nadler’s hide.
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