Neil Gorsuch is the greatest thing since sliced bread and what makes him so very unique is that he is a white-haired white dude that Republicans like.

There’s a not quite explicit generational struggle at play in this election. The older generations, trying to bide just a little more time for that winning lottery ticket of conservative policy–it will be the next one surely–don’t want to relinquish decision-making. In fact, this year will feature the oldest combined age of the two major party candidates ever.

In a village of America, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long ago one of those gentlemen that kept a gun in the gun rack, an old Bible-thumper, a lean hack, and a hound for emotional support.