@juglugs I think that for boomers, especially older boomers who were worried about being drafted and forced to go to Vietnam, many were protesting and attached to the New Left only so long as that was a threat. Others were sincere and stayed left, but many drifted into "I've got mine" because their youthful leftism was just personal self interest. In more normal circumstances I think people from their politics at a young age and it sticks. Take older white GenX people, they vote to the right of boomers. Why? Because so many of them were Reagan Youth.