The Boomers didn’t really start coming in to play until the eighties, from the beginning they slowed down the worst of the leftist excesses of their parents.
The real political hell period that destroyed America and it’s institutional strength, happened from about the mid 1930s to the mid 1970s, since then the damage has slowed and occasionally been reversed as in the second amendment.
Culturally the left wing of the generation ran higher education and cultural institutions. The have moved the country left socially, while conservative boomers sat by helpless.