All around the world, young people in their twenties and thirties are losing faith in democracy. According to one mega survey of surveys, comprising some five million respondents, 55 per cent of millennials in their mid-thirties are dissatisfied with the way democracy is functioning. That’s double the dissatisfaction of Gen Xers at the same age, while a majority of Baby Boomers have consistently reported their satisfaction with democracy over the years.
Meanwhile, in the Anglosphere – and elsewhere – trust in mainstream media is at historic lows. And in 2016, Michael Gove, then Lord Chancellor of the UK, announced that the public had “had enough of experts”. His assessment seemed to be borne out by British voters, who later that year voted to leave the European Union, against the advice of many legal and economic experts. The same dynamic has been repeated in elections worldwide: populist leaders have profited at the
