TBF Buttigieg was never popular with Millennials, he’s a vision of what the old farts in charge of the DNC wish Millennials were.

That being said, I do think you’re right that our generation suffers from endemic tepidness and hedge betting. Like historically the trope was generations get wealthier as they get older and thus more defensive of the status quo, but we’re buried under too much debt and CoL for that.

I think it stems from being the first standardized testing generation. It got so beaten into us that there’s four options here, fill in the right bubble or kiss your future goodbye. So there’s a combination of fear but also an inability to cope with a world that’s not a multiple choice test so it’s a lot of waffling because god help us if we get the answer wrong.