{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/57cc3c7d-b0fd-4930-9279-4e84c75df457/b6453a3e-6d03-49e0-be47-e34437b065a8?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Checks and Balance: Boomers KO’d","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62e286a834d4d9a8af874246/62e286b5f9094c00117965c5.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Baby-boomers have dominated American politics since the 1990s, but this election may be their <a href=\"https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/09/12/younger-americans-feel-their-voting-weight?utm_campaign=checks-and-balance&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">last stand</a>. Shifting demographics do not favour Donald Trump, the boomer-in-chief. Younger Americans are more diverse, more educated, more likely to vote Democrat. Is the boomer era over?</p><p><br></p><p>We speak to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, look back to what Barack Obama called the “psychodrama” of boomer politics, and ahead to what might replace it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>John Prideaux, <em>The Economist</em>'s US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent.</p><p><br></p><p>For access to <em>The Economist</em>’s print, digital and audio editions subscribe: <a href=\"http://economist.com/2020electionpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">economist.com/2020electionpod</a> </p>","author_name":"The Economist"}