I just wanted to point out that a lot of the Silent generation is still around.
Boomers like Palin and Rand Paul will be around for quite a while.
I understand your point. But most of those you indicated are boomers, born in the mid to late 40’s.
John McCain is a Silent genner.
My point is simply that their impact on the political world is dismissing over the next cycle. The Silent Generation is the only recent generation that did not produce a single President. They are the younger siblings of the Greatest Gen, and they have always been in their shadow.