Jim Geraghty of National Review Online assesses a recent loss for high-profile left-wing progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

2028 is a long way off, and on Tuesday, AOC lost an election — House Democrats had to decide whether she or northern Virginia representative Gerry Connolly should be the next ranking member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee. At 35, AOC is less than half the age of 74-year-old Connolly, but House Democrats preferred him over her, 131 to 84. (That’s a 60.9 percent to 39.1 percent split.) …

… Axios wrote that Connolly withstood “a generational revolt.” But just last week, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries boasted, “House Democrats have clearly been in the midst of a generational transition.”

Eh, are they? Mike Lillis, writing over at The Hill:

On Wednesday, the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee confirmed the ranking member positions for the senior lawmakers of four top committees — Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and Appropriations.

That puts Reps. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), 75; Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), 73; Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), 86; and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), 81, in some of the most prominent seats to confront the incoming Trump administration next year.

None of them faced competition from younger members.

And the trend will continue on Monday, when the Steering and Policy panel is scheduled to fill out its committee roster, which will keep a number of veteran lawmakers in the ranking member spots they currently hold.

That list includes Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), 76, at the top of the Homeland Security Committee; Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), 71, as ranking member of the Small Business Committee; Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), 76, on the Science, Space and TechnologyCommittee; and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), 71, on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

All of those members of Congress are close to a decade older than the actresses that starred in The Golden Girls when they started filming that program back in 1985. Good thing the Democrats are putting the Joe Biden era and his style of geriatric, sclerotic leadership behind them, huh?