According to an article by the Hill,  "There is a quiet revolution going on among the younger generation in this country, marked by a dramatic erosion of support for America’s constitutional democracy.  The younger generation has good reason to be disillusioned with democracy. People in their 20s and 30s have grown up in an era marked by one crisis after another, including the attacks on 9/11, the global financial crisis of 2008, escalating climate disasters, growing economic inequality, and the COVID pandemic."  "American government also has seemed paralyzed and/or unwilling to do the things necessary to respond to the everyday problems of ordinary Americans. While older Americans either lived through or knew well democracy’s triumphs, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the younger generation associates democracy with polarization and gridlock."  https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4302113-young-americans-are-losing-faith-in-democracy-educators-must-act-now/ They have become very disillusioned by the US government, increasingly believing that democracy doesn't work anymore, and feel like there is not much hope for the future. Many are becoming open to the idea of having the country be governed by an authoritarian regime.   This is very dismaying and frightening.