Eclipse of the boomers: If the baby boomers generation wanted something, they got it, by force of numbers

Spectator World ^ | 12/03/2025 | Christopher Caldwell

[MinorityRepublican]

it was specifically 1960s Leftist Boomers who started the long march through the institutions. They became college profs in the 80s. They were tenured and dominating history departments by the 90s.

There were Communists in previous generations before the "Boomers". Like you said, they did not capture all the important institutions until the "Boomers" arrived to dominate every aspect of American life.

Hollywood, Federal Government, Public Education, Universities all became Communist when the "Boomers" took over.

It used to be common to have patriotic Americans working at those institutions but that's no longer the case.

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“””””Hollywood, Federal Government, Public Education, Universities all became Communist when the “Boomers” took over.
It used to be common to have patriotic Americans working at those institutions but that’s no longer the case.”””””

What shocked me as a kid and teen was how left the leaders of all those institutions were see posts 115 and 133.

During the 60s (and some in the 50s) I watched the university presidents, the Congress and presidents, Hollywood, the Supreme court, Corporate America, Civil rights movements, the news media and TV news, the generals, upturn everything that I thought I knew about America, in time I learned how it really had been going on since FDR, and before with the left really gaining an upper hand during WWII and its immediate aftermath.
The boomers were born into an America where the left had already captured the institutions.

[Berosus]

For the record, I’m a boomer (born in 1959), but I did not support the Spotify boycott. Mainly because I am a podcaster too, albeit one of the oldest podcasters around.