Last year Teen Vogue felt the need to explain to its readers what a “gerontocracy” was.
Their article was on the heels of Mitch McConnell, then a youthful 81, being escorted away from a televised press conference after he froze without explanation for 20 seconds. Teen Vogue explained that the word meant “a government ruled by the elderly.”
At a press conference two weeks later McConnell froze again, this time for 30 seconds.
