Actually, this is one of the most reasonable obits I’ve read about Powell. Good job.
I hadn’t thought of the “Boomer elites,” although I would like to point out that he actually wasn’t a Boomer, but like so many of our elite now, came from the generation just before. He was 84; the oldest Boomer can only be 75, since the start date is 1946, the start of the post-war baby boom.
But people of his generation became the elites for the Boomers, since they were just enough older to be their leaders. Many of the “don’t trust anyone over 30” crowd were actually pushing 30 or even over 30 themselves. They were about 10-15 years older than the Boomers themselves. Look at our current gerontological leadership (Pelosi, Feinstein, Biden and a host of others) and you will see that they are actually not Boomers.
And Mueller of course wasn’t a Boomer either.
Would be nice to have had at least one example to try to make a point.
Baby Boomer | Definition of Baby Boomer by Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com
Baby boomer definition is - a person born during a period of time in which there is a marked rise in a population’s birth rate : a person born during a baby boom; especially : a person born in the U.S. following the end of World War II (usually considered to be in the years from 1946 to 1964).