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<v Speaker 1>Col him called gen X elected Donald Trump, and I

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<v Speaker 1>got to tell you, for the generation that's been ignored

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<v Speaker 1>since our very birth, we are finally having our moment

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<v Speaker 1>in the sun where we as a generation decided to

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<v Speaker 1>look at the candidates and go, no, that one looks

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<v Speaker 1>like a bigger middle finger to us. And so gen

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<v Speaker 1>X pushes Trump over the finish line. And David Strom

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<v Speaker 1>wrote about it today, David, welcome back to the show.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, thank you, Mandy. It's always fun to be with you.

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<v Speaker 3>And I have to admit I wish I wear gen X,

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<v Speaker 3>but I just miss it. Well.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you and my husband were both born in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty four, which is technically the last year of

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<v Speaker 1>the boomers. But he is far more gen X than

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<v Speaker 1>he ever was boomer. So I just say he's a

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<v Speaker 1>Boomer on the cusp, right, So like in astrology, when

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<v Speaker 1>you're right on the edge, you're just your gen X

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<v Speaker 1>on the cusp is what you are. So I'll give

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<v Speaker 1>you that title.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Well, I am what a friend of mine calls

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<v Speaker 3>a member of a silent generation, because we don't quite

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<v Speaker 3>fit into either category. You know, I watched the Vietnam

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<v Speaker 3>War on TV as a kid, but by the time

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<v Speaker 3>I became an adult, it was in the rear view mirror.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, I wasn't old enough to vote for

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<v Speaker 3>Ronald Reagan at least the first time, but I was

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<v Speaker 3>too old to really say I grew up in the

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<v Speaker 3>Reagan era, which is what the gen X people did.

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<v Speaker 2>And we did.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I'd love to know you've got this great column.

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<v Speaker 1>Justine Bateman created a firestorm, a firestorm with a simple

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<v Speaker 1>tweet that just expressed what so many other people have felt.

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<v Speaker 1>And that is just like we can all exhale because

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<v Speaker 1>finally sanity is beginning to prevail and all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>Justin Batement is everywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>Well and rightly.

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<v Speaker 3>So she really has been in a very gen X way,

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<v Speaker 3>even though she is basically my age, but in a

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<v Speaker 3>very gen X way looking at what has happened and

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<v Speaker 3>identified something really great, which is gen x through its

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<v Speaker 3>cynicism in a way, it's lack of being overly idealistic

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<v Speaker 3>and it's lack of being you know, oversensitive. Looked at

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<v Speaker 3>what was going on and said, look, this is nuts.

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<v Speaker 3>It's ruining our lives. I don't care if Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 3>is crude or anything else. I want my life to

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<v Speaker 3>be better, and so they voted for him in much

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<v Speaker 3>larger numbers than any other demographic group.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that for myself, and I've been doing a

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<v Speaker 1>deep dive on gen X for a lot of different

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<v Speaker 1>reasons that I'll share with you guys later, But one

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<v Speaker 1>of the things that I feel is that we tend

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<v Speaker 1>to look at any situation in a very pragmatic way,

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<v Speaker 1>because when you don't have a lot of guidance from

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<v Speaker 1>your parents, and many of us in this generation raised

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<v Speaker 1>ourselves to a certain extent, you have to figure that

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<v Speaker 1>out at an early age. You just have to say, look,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what is let's take the emotion out of it.

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<v Speaker 1>What's going to be the best for me going forward

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<v Speaker 1>and economically, just common sense wise. And one of the

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<v Speaker 1>things Justine Bateman goes on about is that is how

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<v Speaker 1>intolerable our society has gotten. Intolerable and intolerant our society

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<v Speaker 1>has gotten and she just wants to go back to

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<v Speaker 1>the days when people could have a political disagreement and

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<v Speaker 1>still be friends. Which you say that and you think,

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<v Speaker 1>of course that's how it should be, but not everybody

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<v Speaker 1>sees it that way. So in your view, what is

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<v Speaker 1>going forward?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I think it even goes beyond politics.

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<v Speaker 3>It's just that we've been living through a totalitarian moment,

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<v Speaker 3>almost a maoist moment, where there was a cultural revolution

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<v Speaker 3>out there, and if you did not conform, not just politically,

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<v Speaker 3>but in any number of culture war issues, you were

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<v Speaker 3>persona on grata.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, they're they're really developed a cult out there.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, whether you call it woke or alphabet.

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<v Speaker 3>Ideology or whatever, it also boiled down to you had

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<v Speaker 3>to comply or else. And you know, the gen X,

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<v Speaker 3>you know generation came up at a time where people

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<v Speaker 3>realized that, you know, they couldn't count on the government.

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<v Speaker 2>Not everything was a great moral crusade.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean they looked at the boomers, you know, who

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<v Speaker 3>are so proud of themselves for protesting.

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<v Speaker 2>The Vietnam War and you.

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<v Speaker 3>Know, patted themselves on the back for it, and you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the gen X people looked at them and said, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>well you quit doing that as soon as the draft

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<v Speaker 3>went away. You know, it was not anything about you know,

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<v Speaker 3>great moral crusades. And you know, we're just tired of

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<v Speaker 3>hearing all this moralistic bs. You know, we can account

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<v Speaker 3>on the government to give us social security or anything. Else.

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<v Speaker 2>So we're going to make our own world and not.

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<v Speaker 1>As that's been sort of the trail that we've blazed

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<v Speaker 1>quite nicely. I just started kind of interesting that that

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<v Speaker 1>the swing from left to right was double digits by

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<v Speaker 1>a long shot for this group of people. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think that part of it is, First of all, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>I am five years into gen X, so I'm fifty

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<v Speaker 1>five years old. I'm looking at my retirement. I'm looking

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<v Speaker 1>at my you know, what's going to be either in

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<v Speaker 1>my in my four to one k and in my

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<v Speaker 1>investment accounts, or what's real estate going to do? Because

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<v Speaker 1>I'm now looking very closely at the time of life

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<v Speaker 1>when I want to be able to retire. So when

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<v Speaker 1>I'm choosing my candidate, I'm going to look at the

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<v Speaker 1>candidate whose policies are going to facilitate that. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think a lot of that happened in this election. You

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<v Speaker 1>have you know, Kamala Harris running around talking about giving

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<v Speaker 1>loans to only black men and all of this insane

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<v Speaker 1>stuff that we all knew wouldn't do anything to solve

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<v Speaker 1>any problem, and.

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<v Speaker 2>We just went, no, we're not going to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>We just want some some kind of certainty with business

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<v Speaker 1>and and you know, taxes and lower regulation. We just

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<v Speaker 1>want everything to work, and it's not working now.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, and you know, if you think about it, Boomers really,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, they look at wokesoff and in a very

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<v Speaker 3>abstract way, understand that it's stupid. But it's jen X

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<v Speaker 3>who's at the sort of at the top of their

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<v Speaker 3>game right now, their prime earning years. And what they're

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<v Speaker 3>seeing is they're being labeled people who have worked their

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<v Speaker 3>butts off. They're being labeled as the oppressors. They're being

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<v Speaker 3>asked to, you know, pay the loans of gender studies,

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<v Speaker 3>people who you know, have contributed next to nothing or

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<v Speaker 3>worse to our society.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, they I don't want to say that Gen.

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<v Speaker 3>X resented it, because I don't think that Gener X

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<v Speaker 3>is a particularly resentful generation. They were just tired of

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<v Speaker 3>the BS.

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<v Speaker 1>That's an excellent point, really excellent point. My guest is

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<v Speaker 1>David Strong. You can read his column at hot air

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<v Speaker 1>dot column. I've linked to the one about gen X

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<v Speaker 1>that we're talking about right now, and you can see

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<v Speaker 1>the shift in gen X dramatic in some of the

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<v Speaker 1>stuff that he has embedded in here. David a great

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<v Speaker 1>column and I appreciate you making time for me today

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<v Speaker 2>Always,