Civil Politics (9/4/26): Crossing the Tofu Curtain

Edward Markey.

Let's go with that.

Who is the incumbent Democratic senator of Massachusetts, defeated Seth Moulton.

And I'm just looking here at the number of votes that came in.

It was 64% to 35%.

572,509 for Markey, 310 for Seth Moulton.

And I only bring that up to say, Did you expect it to be essentially two to one there on the vote? I thought it'd be a little bit closer than that.

I did, too.

And then I started to see all the Democratic machine get involved.

And then I was like, hmm, Ayanna Pressley

and Elizabeth Warren.

Well,

I see more young people started to get involved.

So there was an attack.

I'm curious to know what you think.

So a lot of people said that Seth Moulton, who I think is like 47 years old, it's about generational change, right? Well, he's more

moderate.

He's a much more moderate candidate.

So you think the moderation is the thing that got beaten out? Yes.

Even though the age differences, I think Ed Markey was in Congress in 1976 or 78.

Yeah, like when Carter was president.

When Moulton was born, right?

When Moulton was born.

Yeah.

Well, no, no.