Liz Truss Is the UK’s First Generation-X Leader

Which surely means she’s doomed.

Liz Truss was just named the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a job, it must be said, sure looks like it’s going to be an impossible one. As Luke McGee from CNN put it:

From the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation to public services simply not working, Truss will have to plug major holes with a sluggish economy and a promise to introduce no new taxes. And she will have to do it while leading a Conservative Party that is bitterly divided and far from guaranteed to support her vision for the country.

Yeah, good luck, Liz! Many consider Truss almost a stop-gap measure, the person ostensibly in charge of cleaning up Boris Johnson’s messes who will inevitably fail (because they are really big messes) and lead to an entirely new generation (or new party) of leadership that, unlike Truss, has no connection to the Johnson regime. If that turns out to be the case, it will be fitting, because Liz Truss, who turned 47 in May, is a member of Generation X, and if there’s one constant among my fellow Gen Xers, it’s that it’s our job to be the beleaguered stewards in between the boomers who mess everything up and the millennials (and younger) who are eager to push us out of the way (or lump us in with the boomers in the first place) because they’re so…