As a card-carrying boomer (cohort of '46), I joined the Navy in early 1967, and was stationed on an aircraft carrier during the Democractic Convention Riots of '68. My recollection is that when my shipmates and I watched the tv clips of the Chicago cops 'explaining their rights' to the rioters, we cheered the cops. How little did I know that eventually, it would be the rioters who would come to rule our country. How sad. How very, very sad.
I don't thing Bush or any of the republicans in Congress or the Senate were rioters.