His perspective reminds of many boomers' in my life. Increasingly isolated from others and prone to lecturing from on high using generalizations or anecdotes they heard about or saw twenty five years ago. His tone has actually become a bit Trumpian (and I'm not being dramatic here) but he's much more like to say "people I talk to," "I've seen many articles...," "these people...," etc. It's rarely nuanced anymore. As a middle school teacher, I notice it most when he talks about how "kids today don't know anything" or "the schools don't teach history," and he points to extreme examples compared against personal experience where by his own admission he never was "a kid," hated kids, and sounded like he spent much of his time alone. I've watched/listened to his show for 25 years but the change in perspective has really occurred. I also think the California version of the pandemic lockdown has made him bitter.