Excellent boil-down and analysis, Mari. You removed judgment from the "celebrity activism" and egoic virtue signaling of social media-driven protest activity. It gave the trend clarity as a real force that moves elections.

As a youth organizer for multiple presidential, senate, congress, and other down-ballot races, the common stat I referenced was "Kids like us vote our age. 20% of 21 year olds vote. 70% of 70 year olds vote. Who do you think the elected are serving?"

After Rock the Vote, and then Rap the Vote both failing to create sustained youth voting, it took a climate crisis and social reckoning, connected to the attention addiction of social media - to create a pride and currency of value for voting. I never thought those contradictory worlds - the faceless citizenship of voting and the attention seeking of social media - could propel each other.