Arguably we made it worse. They would probably have regressed towards the mean had we not waged war on them for 20 years, tried to shove our supposed values by force, in the process only further convincing them that such values are hollow and meaningless and encouraging the leadership of the more violent, radical people.
It's political momentum. Same thing bernie and AOC are doing. None of them have changed anything yet, it's just getting attention and support for future acts
Doesn't seem to count genz online slang