Aged Like Milk

I find it hilarious that their "young guns" were already greying, our politics is fucked

Meh, I'm 35 and graying.
- I had gray hair coming in at 18.
I mean Paul Ryan is only 53 now and was elected to office when he was 29. He is pretty young. McCarthy is only 58. Eric Cantor is the oldest at 62.
Definitely young and around the age you want leaders to be.
- … 40’s are middle aged adults.
  “Young” is 18-19, maybe mid 20’s.
  Stop infantilizing entire generations of grown-ass adults
- 53 to 62 is by no means young. It may not be elderly, but it's past middle aged.
  The "ideal age" for a political leader is a bag of worms that it's difficult to get into without immediately falling into several different types of ageism.
  The world lived in by a 60 year old for most of their adult life was radically different from the modern world, and has many differences from the world as experienced by the majority of Americans.
  That doesn't necessarily make them a worse leader, just like more experience in life doesn't necessarily make them better, but it definitely raises concerns about disconnection from modern issues.
- To add, Paul Ryan would not have been featured in years. This is image is old. I do not know how old.

The one you don't recognize is Eric Cantor.

What a coincidence that they managed to get a photo with three different people all named Eric Cantor.
Left one is Paul Ryan iirc
Other two are definitely Eric Cantors.

Is that the best photo they could take or the best smiles they could muster?

"Young Royalists"

I just see three #fascist sympathizers.

I haven't seen Paul Ryan in a while, not complaining tho, is he out of politics?

He is. He joined the board of Fox Corporation in 2019.
- "I see you are off the front lines! How would you like to help out the CIA wing of the party, comrade?"

They have thoroughly nuked their bench. If we are still a democracy in the future they will have no one to take of the mantle but for clowns and hucksters.

Seems to win them elections with some fair regularity, why would they change anything?
They're evil clowns pandering to other evil clowns, it's evil clowns the whole way.
Their bench is wackos. As much as I disagree with their positions, I do wish we had a stable Republican Party full of people who at least wanted to work in good faith and not set the place on fire to get their way.

For context, this is the cover of a 2010 book. These were going to be the guys. Surely one of this bunch will be president some day.

Eric Cantor was the House Majority Leader. That's a pretty big deal. He got primaried by a tea partier in 2014. It seems quaint now, but it was a big fucking deal at the time. Never has there been someone so high ranking that the party's electorate kicked out. Cantor was in good standing, but their public was becoming a monster.

The other two were more recently chewed up, but I'll let someone else tell those stories.

Deregulators mount up

Just because you have chaps, a holster, tall boots, a 10 gallon hat, and a revolver, doesn't make you a cowboy.