There is a crisis of senescence in liberal politics. The reason Biden, Harris and Sanders are competitive is their ideas are all roughly the same age.
The strategy of recruiting fresh new faces like Beto, AOC cannot obscure the basic problem of intellectual decrepitude. The challenge facing the West is that a generational agenda has become the ex-future.
The current tide of political upheaval is basically rejectionist. It is a backlash against the 20th century nihilist project. It’s necessary but insufficient. The harder part, which comes next, is building a successor to the ruins of 20th century ideology.
The question every revolution answers is “what is man”? Once the answer was that he was free under the sky of truth, entitled to a personal relationship with eternity. Then he became a blob of tissue, a ward of history as represented by the state. What will he be now?
Whatever the answer turns out to be it will be stamped by the age of information, the first era in which humanity has had to explicitly account for reality of ethereal things.