Donald Trump’s return to the American presidency, fueled in part by a rightward electoral swing among young men, has fueled an epistemic crisis among those who’ve long believed that the kids would act as vanguard for a more progressive, more tolerant future. It was a belated yet necessary moment of recognition: The young people of the 2020s have been shaped by far different, often darker societal developments and forces than those which inspired the Obama era’s millennials. Still, even if the blanket “young and woke” narratives were always a touch reductive, the ensuing overcorrection is perhaps even more so. The youths of today are perceived, globally, as little more than screen-addled doomers.…