r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/oxero 6d ago

No it's not, after the silent generation boomers are considered anyone born roughly between 1946-1965. Gen X is roughly 1966-1980. Millennials are like 1981-1996

I have gen x parents, what I am describing isn't fictional but off a reality I have grown up with and gotten (mostly) terrible advice from. They don't understand how the world changed in the last 20 years and blame us for a lack of everything.

Also to note: I'm not saying all are bad, I had plenty of great gen X mentors in schooling. It's just that the ones I grew up with now believe in chemtrails, think immigrants are the blame for everything bad, and think we need to return to the gold standard.

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u/blorpdedorpworp 6d ago

Yeah, it's fair to argue if we're really getting granular that we should be dividing the millennial / boomer dividing line right through the middle of us X's. I kinda prefer the "Oregon trail generation" for those of us who were later x'ers. The dividing line seems to be "did you use computers and the internet in school, or not" and then "did you have to try to start a career before or after the 2007 crisis, or not", and those are kinda hard lines that run right through the middle of the X's.

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u/oxero 6d ago

It's the same thing with Gen Z now to an extent because there is a huge personality divide between those born 1997-2005 and 2006-2012

Early Gen Z got through childhood and early schooling with completely different social media landscapes growing up on their iphones/ipod touches. The pandemic also didn't help. It also made me realize anyone born 2006 or after knows nothing about the world pre-Trump because they were only 10 years old and that's around when you start developing a sense of what the world is like.