General Discussion

Activist democrats and candidate skew toward middle age and older.
Our party leadership is even older.
That is a large part of the problem.
That's reflected in how inept the party is at exploiting social media and their apparent ignorance of the attention economy.

On the other side the right finds and grooms college students as they did with Ann Coalter and Dinesh D'Souza as far back as the 90s or earlier.
Or they fund intertube talking heads like Turning Point USA or their co-ilk.
These are relatively young people with more like them in the pipeline.
They know how to use social media and they serve to churn up the muck for new ideas or new rhetoric for the old ideas.
At the very least they keep their talking points in peoples faces and keep the conversation on the boil.

Democrats could be doing that, but the change has to start at the top.