The cool people from my generation ended up doing a disproportionate amount of the work of defining contemporary popular culture, but, if Kavanaugh is anything to go by, the worst assholes of my generation will get to do an even more disproportionate amount of the work of defining contemporary political culture.
Me and all my friends back in the late seventies and early eighties knew plenty of jerks like Kavanaugh, and the thought that even one of them might end up on the Supreme Court is, well, disheartening (to put it mildly).
Alas, there are lots of Kavanaughs (and their enablers) running things these days.