Chuck Yeager R.I.P.

I liked this sentence from a tribute to Chuck Yeager by John Avlon titled "Goodbye to the cowboy in the sky":  "Yeager was a direct connection to an American ethos that we've lost sight of -- one before the narcissistic need for attention, the shallow materialism full of phony tough bluster and the fetishization of victimhood took hold and began to define our country, from the Oval Office on down".  

He's referring to  Trump here, but the tiresome "me generation" and victimhood mentality in our country have been around long before Trump became President.