>>507405881 (OP)I think boomers have, at least on a subconscious level, an awareness that once they are gone, the younger generations will rush to undo everything the boomers consider progress. In Trump they see the pendulum swinging away from immigration for cheap labor, racial "equality," "women's rights," and all the gay and retarded Shibboleths created by social movements in the second half of the 20th century. Even though Trump represents barely a fraction of their fears, they see enthusiasm for him and other populist politicians around the world as a violent rejection of the society they built. Boomers truly believed that they were so close to creating the perfect society, but they cannot accept the fact that this led directly to the collapse we are experiencing now. So they blame it on vague concepts like "fascism" and "racism" and consider Trump to be the embodiment of that. But deep down they know that the discontent goes far deeper than him, but to accept that would be to mean admitting that they were wrong, which the boomers are of course pathologically unable to do.
