A thought/theory: US baby-boomers (born around/after WWII) grew up in a time where nationalism and scandalous mass surveillance happened (J. Edgar Hoover, commu

A thought/theory: US baby-boomers (born around/after WWII) grew up in a time where nationalism and scandalous mass surveillance happened (J. Edgar Hoover, communism, lists of people, etc.) Many people in authoritative positions in government and large corporations today are baby-boomers. There is a phrase of history repeating itself right. I wonder if that happens in the cycle when our elders (not elderly) remember "how things used to be" and because they are in now positions of power, behave in ways that bring back the past? I'm not stating all baby boomers are like this, just suggesting that maybe there is something about people in power and their behaviors reflecting their beliefs from their upbringing in various ways.