Has the US become a gerontocracy?

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The president and many key power brokers are in their 70s and 80s. Although half of the population is 40 or younger, only a fifth of Washington’s lawmakers are under the age of 40.

Legal scholar and author Samuel Moyn tells DW’s Hannah Hummel that the US is now a government being run by and for the elderly, at the expense of younger citizens.

Moyn argues the unfair system is a danger to democracy itself. And while the November midterm elections are expected to reshape Congress, Moyn said, it’s unlikely to make a dent in this disparity.