Tuesday Was Gen X's Revenge On Lefty Boomers

Make hose water great again.

The latchkey kids raised on hose water saved America on Tuesday.

I noted this when I saw a poll illustrating the breakdown of Republican support by age:

“Why is this?” asked one reporter.

“Because they wouldn’t leave us alone,” I replied.

I was born at the tail-end of Generation X, right as Reagan was running for President. I died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail many times as a child. The Internet existed at the end of high school but my formative years were spent in glorious social media-less obscurity. E-mail was still somewhat a novelty. Saturday morning cartoons were still a thing.

Like all Gen Xers, I was a latchkey kid, the product of divorce, one of the favorite pastimes of the Boomer generation. We rode in the back of pickups and on bikes and skateboards without dorky-looking helmets. My mom used to send me into the local store to buy her Marlboros and they never carded me, it was a wild honor system. “Being offended” was a foreign concept. We numerically spelled boobs “80085” on calculators. If you talked smack you got your ass kicked. No one litigated beef outside of the playground or behind the gym. We chewed gum that was shaped like cigarettes and would puff out powdered sugar if you pretended to smoke it. We were considered the “lost” generation satirized somewhat by ‘Reality Bites.” Tipper Gore pushed to stick explicit lyric warnings on our music.

Gen X isn’t radical, we’re not lost (as Tolkien brilliantly put it, “not all who wander are lost”) we’re just realistic, practical, and tired of the BS. We had the beautiful privilege of being raised somewhat by the Greatest Generation who witnessed the Boomer generation’s neurosis. That — and our parents leaving us to our own devices for much of the time — was our saving grace. It made us self-sufficient, resourceful, and wily.

I, like others, was used to being on my own growing up, the odd-man-out, and it seems like my generation at-large felt comfortable being ignored. For the past several years political surveys would poll Boomers and then skip right over us to Millennials. We’d roll our eyes and carry on, right up until the left slipped off the spectrum of reason. We’re the ones raising Gen Z and Gen Alpha. The far-left neo-Tipper Gores slapped trigger warnings on everything and promoted the idea that being offended is more dangerous to society than the ability to afford a house by the time you’re 40 years-old.

All of this and more is why Gen X mobilized to vote out Democrats into oblivion on Tuesday. Just as you shouldn’t wake a sleeping giant, so too, should you not force a Gen Xer to get involved. The majority of us did on Tuesday.

Our vote wasn’t just a rejection of the far-left, of the insanity of regulated racism that is DEI, the lawlessness and disorder of an open border and restorative “justice,” it was a direct rebuke of the leftist Boomer policies that not only destroyed the family unit during our formative years but also robbed our children’s generation of the ability to buy a house before they’re 30, established a hedonistic movement that grew to rob our daughters of fair play in sports, and birthed the third and fourth wave feminist industry that abuses our sons as “toxic” for embracing masculinity.

Tuesday’s ballot was a giant Gen X middle finger to everything the Boomer left has ever fought for and promoted. That was the consequence of going too far, taking too much, pushing too hard on people who wanted themselves and their kids to be left alone.

You can’t ignore Gen X anymore. Gen X isn’t you and they don’t wanna be.

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