While Boomers Rage and Millennials Panic, Gen X | Political News

I’m not sure if any of you caught the goofy “Hands Off” ragefests that passed off this previous weekend, however I took a gander to see what the left was fussing about this time. Other than their tiresome “orange man bad” chorus. Sure enough, it was more of the identical, with a sprint of DOGE and a twist of Musk Derangement Syndrome thrown in for dramatic impact. 

What struck me, although, was how very Boomer the crowds appeared (see the accompanying photograph captured this previous weekend by our own Jennifer Oliver O’Connell). It’s as if each retired librarian who identifies as a coastal elite, which appears to be most of them, had dragged their Birkenstock-clad spouses out to the spectacle and shoved a foolish signal of their palms. In short, the protestors had been very previous and very white. 

Like many Gen-Xers, and particularly these of us who had been born proper on the heels of the Boomers, I’ve all the time held a healthy quantity of disdain for the group that got here earlier than us. As a group, they arrive off as extremely self-righteous, smug, and fully un-self-aware, and regardless of having loved the best years of America, they’re nonetheless mad and at the moment are complaining about these of us who should clean up their messes.

Then, after logging onto X to see the newest “discourse” across the tariffs, I see this:

A very good buddy of mine who’s conservative / right-wing / Republican simply despatched me this.

You begin messing round with people’s investments and 401(okay)s and you’re going to lose help — fast. pic.twitter.com/GEBcYxMGcx

— Ryan Saavedra (@ActualSaavedra) April 7, 2025

I do not even should know the particular person concerned to know they’re a Millennial. This sentiment oozes, “I like my fat 401(k) and cheap consumer goods and I’ll give up all of my freedoms to have them!” Hey, all of us like these issues, however you are kidding your self for those who assume there’s not a steep price to pay for them. Did “new math” make an whole era financially illiterate? 

While our generational bookends are engaged of their tariff and Trump tantrums, we Gen Xers are over right here questioning how so many of our fellow residents thought the gravy practice was going to go on for eternally. The indicators have sure been there for a long time that we would finally pay the price for issues like printing money and promoting our farmland to China. And right here we’re. 

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Generation X has all the time identified there’d be a day of reckoning for the United States. We’ve been informed for many years we might best save our pennies as a result of there sure as heck wasn’t going to be any Social Security left for us after we hit retirement age. When I used to be handed my faculty diploma within the early 90s, it got here with a message of: “Congratulations, sure hope you can find a job in this economy. Oh, and you’ll never have it as good as your parents.”

Not a great word on which to begin maturity, nevertheless it’s okay to dwell in actuality and not on drained slogans and scaredy-cat doomsday situations. My era has realized some arduous classes alongside the way in which, having skilled the Cold War, stagflation, Black Monday 1987, high mortgage charges within the 90s, the tech stock bubble burst of the early 2000s, two terror assaults on the World Trade Center, the struggle on terrorism, the financial disaster of 2008 and, of course, COVID. We’ve weathered this stuff, having grown up in an America that valued freedom, was proud of the “Made in America” label, and celebrated patriotism.

For goodness sake, we had been pressured to take heed to the bloviating of Boomers like Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, and Billy Joel as they lamented the loss of center America and our manufacturing base. And now that era is ticked off that Donald Trump desires to return our nation to some of its previous glory? Spare me.

Now, it is too straightforward responsible all of in the present day’s issues on Boomers, and the reality of it’s that it has been generations of each Republicans and Democrats who’ve used the American taxpayer as a limitless credit card and doing their best to suck freedom dry. But, the reality can also be that Generation X is staring down retirement whereas wrestling with a Boomer era that’s hanging for pricey life onto a lot of our nation’s assets and Millennials who do not appear to have the spine to deal with an financial downturn that historical past has confirmed will probably be short-term.

The humorous factor about all of that is that the item of these two generations’ ire, Donald Trump, could turn into essentially the most Gen X president this nation ever will get. Our tiny group could by no means get one of our own into the White House, however Trump, who’s on the older facet of the Boomer cohort, appears to have begun the struggle we all the time knew was headed our method.

Gird your loins and saddle up, my fellow Gen Xers. We’ve acquired a nation to save lots of.

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