In 1981 Saddam Hussein led the entire national Ba’ath Party into a hall and just killed or arrested everyone he didn’t find useful.
I mention this only because the people in power have been in power long enough to have shaken hands with Saddam when he took over Iraq.
The long, long shadow of the Watergate Babies. And this is just the trend at the median of all representatives. The Democratic leadership consists of people in their 80s who have been around for going on 50 years now, and who have been in charge since the turn of the millennium.