I had no idea who Sarah Cooper was until I read this article, but...

My hot take? Liberal Boomers are singularly focused on Donald Trump -- which is why this humor resonates with them -- whereas Millennials and Zoomers are much more concerned about broader structure. https://twitter.com/WeAreMel/status/1291003559983681537

And again, this is going to be the primary fracture line under the Biden administration.

And it could get pretty damn ugly.

I mean, it's already been pretty ugly over the past four years.

I've written about the generational divide and the gerontocracy nature of Democratic politics before, and I've gotten a *lot* of angry emails from older relatives, and had a lot of tense conversations.

To my mind, the basic issue is that Boomers in general -- and I'm using that term without class or racial qualifiers deliberately -- do not seem to view younger people as equitable political partners.

And white Boomers, in particular, do not seem to be able to understand the basic economic realities of 21st-century America, and how those realities have shaped their childrens' outlooks and attitudes.

This is exacerbated by the generational divide about understanding what "politics" is.

Boomers -- admittedly less so than a decade ago -- have a rigid understanding of politics as "formal political structures." Voting, primarily.

Millennials/Gen. Z have a generally more capacious understanding of politics as involving different forms of activism.

And this divide leads to mutual resentments, because neither side necessarily recognizes the political work the other does.

Anyway, all of this is to say that the generational divide isn't going to go away, that is is a major frisson point in the Democratic coalition, and that this struggle is going to define the 2020s politically in Democratic politics, even moreso than the 2010s.

Because -- to put it crudely -- there's going to be a lot more Gen. Zers eligible to vote in 2028, and a lot fewer Boomers.