A few years ago, members of Gen Z-people who now range in age from roughly 10 to 25-were too young to be elected to office. In Frost’s case, although he will also be the first Afro Cuban member of Congress, the word historic is being used more literally, to refer to the passage of time. In the former cases, historic refers to the historical context that makes the win notable-a context of longtime oppression or marginalization or underrepresentation. These firsts are inarguably all firsts, but they’re “historic” in different ways. On the lists of “ historic firsts” and “ barriers broken,” which logically included such victories as those of Massachusetts’s Maura Healey and Oregon’s Tina Kotek, the first openly lesbian governors to be elected, and that of Wes Moore, Maryland’s first Black governor, journalists were also citing the win by Florida’s 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro Frost, the first member of Gen Z elected to Congress. Early on Wednesday morning, while I was scrolling through Twitter in order to learn the midterm-election results in the most piecemeal and confusing fashion possible, I noticed something a little off.
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