If, as seems possible, Joe Biden wins the presidency by peeling away older white voters from the Republican coalition, liberals won't just win the White House; they'll gain a new generational villain to bemoan. Instead of sneers of "OK Boomer", there will be a realisation that the last bastion of conservatism in a leftward-shifting country may soon lie with my own Generation X.

Let's stipulate that generational divisions are somewhat arbitrary and artificial and that they track imperfectly with the age divisions favoured by most pollsters.