It’s fair to assume that the older one is, the more probable it is that one will share the outlook on life and disdain for younger people that they respond to with “Ok Boomer” (in the article it’s acknowledged by several people that this is more important than age). The arsehole who started the whole “avocado toast” business was himself a Millenial (another “self-made” real estate mogul who got his start with family money). As I said in another topic:
For me, “Boomer” is less a definition of a generational cohort than it is a definition of a selfish and toxic and ultimately delusional white American attitude toward society that emerged over the course of the postwar economic anomaly (approx. 1947-2007, give or take). Few individuals better typify the attitude than the repulsive David “Bobo” Brooks.
Slotting people into that category by birth year alone isn’t helpful, because there are all too many Silents and Gen-Xers (to use the standard generational terms) who’ve internalised this crappy outlook, and plenty of Boomers who reject it.
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The chronology does factor in enough that calling them Republicans or conservatives or neoliberals doesn’t quite cut it. The rough age cohort we call Boomers (a group with the numbers for serious demographic clout) were born into and lived their entire lives in an unusual period of American prosperity that deeply informed the crappy attitude we now associate with the generation (or at least the “easy mode” default). That attitude also crosses party lines – witness the typical member of the Dem Third Way establishment.
Currently, for every year younger a person is than 55 it’s less and less likely that their conservatism (assuming they embrace it at all) will be informed by the same assumptions as those over 55, or will take the same form that theirs did. As bad as the Boomer embrace of Reaganism was for American politics (and the planet in general), Millenial right-wing populism may turn out to be a worse trend.
