The left was very prude against anything that wasn't traditionally left to them: so they inflated a cancel culture: everyone that was not purely leftist had to be purged.
The right was extremely attached to Trump: they treated him like the second coming of Jesus: he could do no wrong and everyone against him was wrong.
I believe they were very similar too boomers in reality: they were the kids of the WW2 survivors: millennials were the kids of the 9/11 survivors.