This graph is a legitimacy signal, not a correlation. When Trump approval among under-40s spikes exactly when DOGE interest spikes, it was the early stages of a political realignment driven by economic reality. If we break this signal down into pieces: 1. What's really happening Under-40s have been locked out of asset ownership for two decades while watching bureaucracy expand and their purchasing power get silently confiscated through monetary debasement. DOGE represents the first credible threat to shrink the extraction apparatus. The approval spike isn't some ideological belief, it was mostly pure economic self-interest finally finding a political outlet. 2. The structural trap You can't have: A generation with negative net worth due to inflation and regulatory capture and at the same time Trust in the institutions that accelerated their dispossession and also have Political stability When capital ownership becomes inaccessible, their stake in defending the status quo evaporates. They've got nothing to lose. 3. The binary choice Either dismantle the bureaucratic extraction layer with reckless abandon which was seeming under attack, proving that competence can beat proximity to the monetary spigot, and if not… this generation completes its migration toward socialism. Not because they're ideological, they see the problem clearly but don’t fully understand the solution. Socialism or Crony-capitalism both locks them out, they'll burn down the system entirely. 4. Bottom line This isn't about Trump. It's about whether the state can actually shrink or whether it only grows. The youth are signaling: show us government can get smaller, or we'll vote for anyone promising to redistribute what we can't earn. Dismantle the parasitic layer now, or watch them embrace the very system that guarantees their permanent enslavement. Both parties were promised change, and they choose MAGA, but if that cant do it… then they will try something else. That's the choice.