I don’t want any Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, or Trump to run for president ever again, but Bernie was 75 in 2016 and that was not a problem for many democrats.
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It’s more an observation about the tone-deafness and fecklessness of the DNC establishment. I would guarantee you that there are senior members of that group (which does still lean toward the Third-Way lite version of the neoliberal consensus) who think it would be just peachy if Clinton ran again in 2020, whatever her age.
As I implied above, I doubt they have the level of sway they did in 2016, so there’s some small hope for the Dems to become an effective party with a more effective strategy in 2020 (although they’re doing their traditional mid-term dropping of the ball for next year).
It’s just tedious conspiratorial thinking to distract from the question of how to make sure the millions of people who did vote for Hillary (and often in preference to Sanders) vote again in 2018 or 2020.
But hey, those votes can surely be taken for granted because there’s no way that anyone can like HRC right??? It must just be the conniving of ~the establishment~.
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The real problem here is that people continue to conflate “Democrats” and “The Left.” There is no major left-wing U.S. political party. Both of the major parties are suicidally eager to do what their wealthiest donors tell them, and big money is right-wing by definition.
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True. But to a lot of people, it was a problem.
Oh, I’m sure some would think so. What I meant was Clinton herself: I can’t really see her deciding to run again at that age. (Honestly, in her stead, I’d flip a bird at the entire realm of politics and spend the rest of my days doing something pleasant, far away from media, pollsters, and the internet. 
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