By most definitions, I’m a baby boomer, but I never felt like one. To me, a proper boomer is someone whose formative years included the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Summer of Love, Chicago in 1968, and Woodstock. I was way too young for any of that; my formative years featured Watergate, inflation, Jimmy Carter, and the Iran hostage crisis. It’s not the same thing at all; real boomers thought they had the divine right to change the world, but my cohort just wanted to survive it.
Donald Trump was born in 1946; he is, therefore, unquestionably a boomer. To what extent does he reflect values and personality traits typically associated with boomers, and how, if at all, does he deviate from them?
His self-absorption and rejection of conventional sexual morality are boomer traits. His complete lack of idealism, on the other hand, sets him far apart from the rest of his generation. Did he ever even see “The Graduate?” He would have been the guy saying “Plastics,” not the innocent protagonist.