Gen X thrived on a blow-it-all-up attitude. Things look different now that Trump is actually doing it | Unpublished
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Publication Date: April 15, 2025 - 04:00

Gen X thrived on a blow-it-all-up attitude. Things look different now that Trump is actually doing it

April 15, 2025
Being of this particular age, with their particular set of life experiences, at this particular moment in history (which didn't end, as it turns out), means the generation once notorious for its cynical and detached attitude has a particular way of experiencing all that's going on.


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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump and his campaign to bring Canada under Washington’s thumb. And yet this week he delivered a diatribe that could have come straight from the mouth of the U.S. President.The object of Mr. Ford’s wrath was the judiciary. Like Mr. Trump, who has been attacking judges and dodging court orders, he finds some judges simply infuriating. He said those “terrible, terrible bleeding-heart judges” are too soft on crime.
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