Every Gen X kid who grew up rolling his eyes at stories of communes and anti-war protests, who has a nostalgic disdain for Crosby, Stills, and Nash, carries in him the essence of the new conservative. The conservative of the past was of the past, always seeming to want to wind the clock back - to the 1950s, back to some American ideal unsullied by the riotous 1960s.Д«ut the conservative contemporaries of the hippie Boomers were in some ways ill-equipped to fight those who had bested them in defining a generation, so it would fall to the children of the flower children to challenge the shibboleths of Woodstock. In fact, it might fairly be said that Gen X had no culture, only countercultures. KeatonвЂ™s yuppie-in-training was humorous and popular, although the show ended in 1989, just as the yuppie backlash set in. The new energy that the Gen X conservative is bringing has everything to do with being countercultural. Keaton, holds up a picture of a young Richard M. Keaton, a card-carrying Young Republican with a blazer over his shoulder, a tie around his neck and a picture of William F. Keatons, and just as the character would be, they are now in their 40s and 50s and for the first time taking institutional power within conservatism. To their dismay, they birthed four yuppies-to-be, led by one Alex P. Keatons heading off to college or the workforce, yet in the eyes of Hollywood this type was still a freak.ДЄs it turns out, there were a lot of Alex P. Keaton wasnt supposed to garner so much attention on the show, which also starred Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross as Keatons liberal, ex-hippie, baby boomer parents. And maybe that strikes a little close to home.

Keaton, the yuppie-to-be character from the 1980s television sitcom Family Ties.

And it is interesting to note that this character was an iconoclast for supporting Reagan, even though in the showвЂ™s third season Reagan won an absolute landslide of an election against Walter Mondale. But I am also conscious that to many people the word Princeton still means martinis, country clubs, and Alex P. He was joyous and confident in his conservatism, a kind of Reaganite happy warrior.

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