gave us many reasons to smile. There were Erica’s witty comebacks, Dustin and Suzie’s duet, and, of course, the return of Steve “the Mom” Harrington. But arguably one of the season’s most wholesome and highly anticipated plot developments was the newfound friendship between Max and Eleven. “It’s not just votes,” his mom told him. “122,000 people know your name.”That resonated. Eldon jokingly refers to Obama as his “eventual predecessor.” That’s his personality — full of intimate charm and boundless energy. He’s a young person’s young person. He doesn’t see his support of causes like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal as a politically calculated choice — he simply thinks they are the right thing to do. And in his view, there’s no time to wait. “My grandparents are both immigrants from the Bahamas and Jamaica and they are an interracial couple who came here in the 1960s,” he said. “My grandma and grandfather never thought an Eldon would be famous in this area. We used to get taunted in this area.”