alt Hacker NewsI think that's exactly what OP meant? While Trump's policies take the long term gerontocratic/anarcho-capitalist dynamics strangling of our society and crank them to 11, a lot of younger people ended up buying into his "burn it all down" messaging imagining it would result in some principled evenly-applied reform that might get the boot off their own necks. And that level of foolishness seems straight from the naive rashness of youth.
I think it’s better to reevaluate what voters’ interests are instead of throwing up our hands and assuming they just don’t understand what’s good for them.
My wife’s much younger half siblings are in their early 20s. They come from middle or lower middle class backgrounds in a secondary or tertiary city in Oregon. The one who is mixed race is MAGA, and the one who is white shares her pronouns on Zoom so I assume she leans liberal. But I’ve never heard them talk about the economy the way you’re talking about it (“boot in their neck”). Their parents aren’t rich, but they’ve been able to afford to give them some runway to launch, and both have gone into healthcare fields (one into occupational therapy, the other into nursing). Their lives are pretty comfortable and I don’t think they see politics through the perspective of some 1930s West Virginia mine worker like you do.