I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024

All those polls are cucked anyway. You're taking a national composite by age when the regional variants are overwhelming. More Florida and Texas Zoomers are voting for Trump than California and New York GenXers. The Gulf Coast suburbs are absolutely choked with people in their 30s and 40s brain-poisoned by decades of consumer slop and corporate culture. Age has far less to do with it than family politics, education/business environment, and media diet.

Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.

Unfortunately, they still are. And the result is this deep reactionary clinging to the Clintons and Obamas as some kind of panacea for the modern moment.