Young people famously just don't consistently get out to the polls in the way that much older people do. There might be a day when TV news just doesn't matter (it's certainly mattered little to me since sometime in the 90s), but it might take until the generation that grew up with the rise of the internet is approaching retirement.

Now that one is bound to change. Young people, both in the US and abroad, are discovering the powers of social media and organize to advance their causes. Trump with his backwards, racist and misogynistic rhetoric and his politics mostly serving the old, white, male population provides a perfect enemy figure to rally against.

Somewhere on Reddit I have read that from now until the elections this fall there will be 4 million young people turning old enough to vote (sounds about right, given ~4M births per year in the US). That's a massive block of voters and most of them will either vote Democrat or some of the fringe parties.

Thanks to the powers of social media, though, this won't be as much an issue as in previous elections - people can share workarounds and actually document stuff happening and spreading the word - worldwide, for free and not (easily) censorable.

The "old generation" simply has accepted being more or less denied their right to vote, the current young generation has the willpower and the resources to actually fight back... where the biggest and most effective resource is creating outrage on social media.

Suppose I am a political bad actor and want o manipulate an election. I study precinct records (and have a small army of motivated assistants) and identify key places where a small change can make a big difference. Of course, my opponents have poll watchers out looking for such shenanigans, and I suspect they may try to disrupt my shenanigans by rallying people to protest them. So I just implement shenanigans at more locations than I need, and ideally im places that are easy for my opponents to get to but where I don't actually have any hope of affecting the outcome. With luck they'll declare victory on my false target while never noticing what's going on at my real one.

The basic weakness of swarm tactics is that whoever has the best information operation can easily divide and conquer over a short timeframe.

So yeah people are more motivated and more aware than in previous elections, which is definitely a good thing, but stay alive to the fact that a political opponent is equally capable of iteration and has motivated activists of their own.

The ones that vote will probably tend to vote as you indicate.