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[quote=Anonymous]OP (and anyone under 50):

Notice how all the Boomers are talking about how intense they think their youth was, not about how the Presidents were received. First thing to understand about Boomers: we (almost all of us, I should say) love to think everything is about us. They mention unpleasant stuff from the 1950s-1970s (hillariously assuming my ignorance!) what they don't mention are events where deep questions about the legitimacy of the President by rival elite factions are at the forefront.

What characterizes the present are things like an outgoing CIA Chief taking shots at the President and the newly inaugurated President engaging in a staged event at Langley. Also, members of the press and the rival party accusing the President of collusion with a foreign power against U.S. interests, and doing so in the absence of evidence, instead employing conjecture. This sort of fighting amongst powerful actors is absent from their discussion of the 50s-70s and that seems to be what you were asking about.

I mentioned the 1930s and 1860s as times when Presidents acted boldly and incurred the uniquely intense wrath of many elite factions. I'd class those with the current frame and the period from 1776-1780s and note there are nearly identical intervals between these periods. Societies fray regularly and with a nasty dynamic of powerful factions duking it out. This recalls the Kikyu proverb: When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.[/quote]

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