The silver lining to this election is that we will have seen the last Baby Boomers running for high office.
And I say that as a Boomer. As I see it, we did two things right: electing Reagan twice, and ending the Cold War...and we still effed it up, putting crony capitalists and REMFs in charge...and they ran it right into the ground.
ETA: the fastest growing industry in our economy is "public service."