Although most of the architects of the Third Way were Baby Boomers, I would argue that their success was especially destructive to the political imagination of myself and my fellow Gen-Xers.
To put it crudely, we grew up in an era when liberals were winning the culture wars, but conservatives were winning the economic wars. The popular culture we consumed promoted individual rebellion against authority, but not collective struggle. It promoted social responsibility towards those "less fortunate" (or, in more modern parlance, the "marginalized"), but not solidarity. Bill Clinton had more than a little Ferris Bueller about him. For those of us who are white (or susceptible to anti-Black racism), watching The Cosby Show as kids in the 80s primed us to congratulate ourselves for electing Obama as adults in 2008. And while pretty much every Gen-X socialist I do know only made it through the 80s because of hip-hop or punk rock (or both), by the 90s both of those genres had become depoliticized and mainstreamed.