You seem to endow one or more contemporary generations of Republicans with powers not easily seen. The “adults” in the room *ARE* the Boomers - just look at Trump and his Cabinet. With the exception of his children and a few others, the Millenials and GenXers have failed utterly to step up and provide leadership - let me just suggest Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Paul Ryan as some of the leading examples of such failure.
If the 16- to 25 year olds who are not presently on the radar politically are to fill the void, that’s great. But they’re going to need to rally around Trump and ideas like capitalism and educate themselves in the ways of business and commerce, accepting the basic inequality that exists in a free market nation, and putting aside their childish whining about “fairness” and an all-seeing all-feeling big brother government that provides “free stuff” like tuition and health care and start becoming producers, not just eaters.
Rand Paul (b. 1963) is a baby boomer. Ryan (b. 1970) and Cruz (b. 1970) are not.
Also, see my post 53, on the closeness in age of baby boomers Trump, Bush, and Clinton.
You’re seeing this from the viewpoint of the ‘elite’... I’m speaking from the viewpoint of ‘the base’... that’s where the change has happened. It’s at the idea level - the culture level .... and it’s forever (unless, God forbid - a major long lasing war)