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All the Way to Midnight

Boomers fueled the MAGA movement and now the bell curve is descending.

Mark Greene
4 min readNov 9, 2022

The MAGA movement, based on aging white conservative boomer victimhood is now a descending bell curve. Boomers, of which I am one, are dying off. Far too many of us (more than half) helped start and are still driving the MAGA movement. How we got here is a combination of our own disconnection, and the vulnerability that disconnection created to decades of carefully crafted political manipulation.

Boomers were wholly unprepared for the manipulations of Fox News in the universal bundled cable of the 90s. White boomers never faced the great depression, or a world war, yet we were particularly susceptible to the idea that we were victims of hardships. In part because of the restless disconnection of our gated community lives we bought fragile white victimhood hook, line and sinker.

After lifetimes of leaning into consumerism and mass consumption we boomers woke up to find ourselves angry and reactive to our own disconnection. Maybe a bigger SUV would help? Maybe a third marriage? That sense of disconnection was a warning, an inflection point. Some of us self reflected. Took stock.

But many more of us doubled down on our nagging sense of victimhood. “Whatever the fuck is wrong here, it must be someone else’s fault…

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Mark Greene
Mark Greene

Written by Mark Greene

Working toward a culture of healthy masculinity. Links to our books, podcasts, Youtube and more: http://linktr.ee/RemakingManhood.

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Good piece, Mark. I'm 70 and am not at all flailing. It takes a great deal of work to be able to pivot regularly, and if any of us is going to survive that's one skill we have to flex. It isn't just inflection points. With all the changes upon us…

Excellent article. Climate Change is one of those areas where I've talked to Boomer relatives. Some simply hide in denialism.
But, among those that are willing to entertain its future impact, I have been really disappointed and alarmed by their…

Young American voters across race and gender have entered the chat.

and thank goodness.
i hope my fellow boomers aren't destined to experience dark night[s] of their soul[s] in order to see the light... i just know i did.
[and thank goodness]
and thank you for this insightful piece, mr. greene.
[and thanks @tamara for the link! <3]