A Conspiracy of Old Women: Geraldine Ferraro and Identity Envy

We know that old women are Clinton’s demographic.
The question is whether we want them ruling the country.
I think that’s the deeper subtext of the recent stupidity of Geraldine Ferraro: it’s not so much racism and as competing identity politics: victim-status-envy. Old women who are so close to vindication they can taste it, flush with [...]

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