AND BOY, DOES IT EVER: Why younger women love Bernie Sanders, and why it drives older women crazy.
This urgency that women should support Clinton so she can defend causes can come across as condescending to young women. A great example of this was when Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in an interview with the New York Times, “Here’s what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.”
And for women like Steinem, who has been fighting for feminism her whole life and just turned 81, this may well be their last chance to see a women elected to office. As Steinem quipped on Maher’s show, “Most people my age are dead.”
So who’s the Party Of Old White People, again?
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