I was looking for pictures of Trump’s counter -protests and DOGE all over the United States during the weekend, and I could only notice anything: there was definitely a lot of gray hair.
I am completely surprised by what I remember about the recent protests of the past – such as Black Lives Matter and the protests of Israel/Gaza, as the youth seemed to lead this charge.
It seems that I am not the only person I noticed. on R/50501One of the Reddit forums to organize the weekend protests, someone to publish“We really got delivered to Boamers.”
“I saw three major protests today about where I lived,” the person said. “Guess from the back and gave the largest support offer?” Births.
A group of demonstrators in South Carolina, during the weekend, held anti -Trump signs.
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Many demonstrators appear to be public service workers such as those who hold signs from the Postal Union.
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My colleague Lakshmi Varaneasi reported something similar recently. I reported two protests “Tesla Takedown” last month in Michigan:
I have noticed that the crowds in Ann Arbur were primarily and were primarily among people over the age of 65, and white, and I have retired from jobs that depend on public financing as teachers and professors in local universities and social workers.
Entrepreneurs also noticed from the business who verified last weekends from sites throughout the country a similar trend: “Many said they were more worried about the economy and their retirement investments, which diminished side by side Trump tariff ads“
Shortly, I have noticed something in this sense on the outskirts of New York City where I live – it seems that the small teeth of protests in the city’s boxes during the past or two months are made largely made of women more than 60 years.
However, I have some theories about the reason for a lot of births to protest.
In the center of Boston, one of the shots showed many elderly people among the crowds of the demonstrators.
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The first is that children’s children (aged between 61 to 79 years) are either a retirement age or near him. They are the most interested in social security fate and their retirement portfolios. These two things were thrown into chaos. Elon Musk referred to social security as the “largest Ponzi plan”, although he also said that the righteous beneficiaries can get more benefits by simply delivering waste.
The new customs duties have sent the stock market not available during the past week, which may harm the retirement accounts for people who have already retired. If prices rise on all kinds of things, this also harms retirees on a fixed income. Consider, many births love Timo.
But let’s be honest: Trump’s 65 -year -old voter will decide, who looked at his investment account on Friday, to appear against the anti -Trump protests on Saturday. Children’s children, like any generation, are not a male. (Boomers voted equally with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the 2024 elections). People who come to protest the same political trend for decades. This is not the situation in which the past few weeks have been extracted and changed minds everyone Born.
However, I think that recent events can activate some sleeping -oldest -Democrats who remained in their homes in the student’s demonstrations in Gaza or MATTER LIVES for 2020.
In Riferside, California, I read one mark, “We paid the price of our social guarantee,” a major concern from many older demonstrators.
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I asked Robert CohenProfessor of History and Social Studies at New York University, whose work focuses on the history of protest movements, because of all this. He warned against making any comprehensive generalizations.
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Cohen admitted that the children of children who lived-or participated in the protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s, in fact, have a slightly different perspective of anti-defense protests today.
Cohen said: “What does America mean great again? This means that America is deficient in social changes in the 1960s,” Cohen said.
In Lansing, Michigan, people held American signs upside down to refer to a country in distress.
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Think about some of the things that sects are proud of their mourning for: civil rights, women’s rights, and environmental reasons – they may feel urgent to reach the saving of those things that are threatened.
Generation attended by concerts for Live aidthe Bangladesh partyAnd I made a Christmas song With the words “Do they know that it is Christmas at all?” It may have a different perspective on the effects of the US Agency for International Development from developing countries, as part of its work was dealing with global hunger.
People over 65 years old are the most reliable voting block, and this may be meaningful here.
“It is really difficult [politicians] Cohen said: “To remove them because they vote more, but also because they were present, and not like a kind of young abundance,” Cohen said.
I must once be given the evacuation of the responsibility that any comprehensive generalization of generations always It will come short. (Trump himself is Bomer, after all). And all my evidence about the demographic age of demonstrators this week is a purely anecdotal.
But if our image of the two years of the past few years was a young blue hair, we may need to update the retirees in the Capri pants and the “Best Grandma in the World” shirt.
