I believe that the older you are, the less that you realize how successful the brainwashing of younger people, has been.
Everything to them is fairness, equality, diversity, etc.
Many of them would think voting for a gay person, was not only a good idea, but a chance to send a message to their old, square, straight, racist, homophobic elders.
40-something LTC Vindman mentioned the "Power disparity," between the President of the US vs. Ukraine.
He is woke. He used social justice lingo. Identity politics. Post modernist.
Whatever the demographics were for the 2016 election, have likely changed to be less favorable for conservatives/Republicans.