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.
Can’t deny that but at least conservatives exist now, and have since the seventies.
During the 50s and 60s there seemed to be almost no opposition to the most radical left.
Walter Cronkite, the creation of PBS, the 1965 immigration act etc. would now run into competent and powerful resistance.