Well, Trump has in many ways been the last option to preserve the unipolar balance of power with the US at its head. Though he campaigned on "america-first," he's still clearly wanted to preserve this - his blustering about getting Iran and the Norks into a deal under the sheer weight of US power and sanctions alone, his trying to take on every single country/bloc that imposed some form of tariff on US goods, his saber-rattling in the ME and his efforts to counteract Chyna all speak to a desire to have America as top dog. Yet he's also tossed aside the neocon/neoliberal idea that we aught to be trying to use dollar diplomacy to spread democracy, rather than simple economic benefit - and I'd argue that 'spread american-style democracy' was a mainstay of US foreign policy since the collapse of the USSR. China is definitely going to rise to create a bipolar system even more than it has now, and it seems likely that we drift towards multipolar as the EU (potentially) tries to shift itself into a third-party situation rather than decidedly under the US's wing, particularly if NATO continues to see reductions.
I mention all of this because it fundamentally changes the atmosphere in which these protests and pressures on the government will move. Big, giant, multinational corporations were only able to spread their feelers out everywhere because of that unipolar system - now they're facing competition abroad that they cannot beat, plus insurgent opposition catching up to them. Amazon's had trouble breaking into the Indian market; and now Walmart and Target have not-horrendous online options and are seeing their share of online sales swell during this pandemic. That recent bill shoved down Hong Kong's throat has made Google finally grow a fucking pair, and so China is trying to develop its own alternatives to things like the android store, google's search functions, and so-on. Countries are trying to bring their own infrastructure up to snuff on this kind of stuff in expectation that the current thoroughfares aren't going to be as free-flowing in the coming decades.
And I mention all of that because it fundamentally changes the wealth and comfort by which these kids can exist. Their thought-leaders tend to sit in highly overvalued industries that are in desperate need of a reckoning and of diversification, propped up by investors who believe that seeing decades of red will generate windfalls for them if they can just hold out until some breakthrough or other comes through. With a depression coming on, that might shift where they keep their money. They might audit these massive, bloated companies and figure out what areas are redundant or inefficient. Tech has done nothing but grow, grow, grow - yet there's a techlash brewing broadly, there's antitrust discussions, there's a government that can't afford to cut them massive tax breaks and preferential, protectionist treatment, more foreign competition, more restrictions on getting low-paid skilled labor, etc. etc. If the thought-leaders find themselves cut of funding, or otherwise more broadly scrutinized, I think you'll start to see less people able to afford to spend all-day every-day "activisting".
The down-below activists, closer to being actually poor, are still buffeted by parents that coddle them endlessly and an economy that allowed them to be net drains on their households without too much trouble. That's going to get changed as money gets tight, especially if the jobs market's cap has shrunk. Things will increase in price as the global networks get thinned; there's no doubt of that. We've all asked: "how do these people have the fucking time to protest all the time? How are these people just okay with showing their faces breaking shit?" A glut of money and an aimless bourgeois class lets that happen, that's how. 2008 gave them all a brief impression of what it was like to go without, though the damages there mostly fell onto the working classes and poor -- these yuppies were the ones that went on holiday to their local park to sing coombayah. They gave OWS their all, except they fucked that up so bad that the banks came back even more entrenched and corrupt than before. And then it was 11-12 years of straight economic growth, highly concentrated in tech and tech-adjacent firms that all benefitted from the unipolar arrangement.
I see all of this shit getting bored and wandering off to lead unimpressive middle-aged lives, coupled with further explosions in anxiety and depression among the group involved because they now realize they farted about playing revolutionary in their 20s and forgot to do what the kids in the 60s did - get useful skills. I see this as a last-ditch effort to push everything in and through by a cornered class that realizes, soon, the US-centric nature of the internet - awfully useful for when you want to astroturf the size of your "grassroots" campaign - is starting to slip away. There's an absolute fear of the silent majority in the US, and all efforts are being made to sneak around them as much as is possible. So, really, I think it's going to be a firecracker of 5 years and the re-emergence of political violence as a common tactic (I mean, hell, BLM venerates BLA)... as it becomes increasingly clear that this kind of bombastic "activism" doesn't achieve jack shit, and indeed might contribute to scuppering meaningful efforts for social progress. People will turn on that yuppie extremism and seek a return to sleepy peacefulness, and the good progressives will drag all of their causes they hide behind as shields down to their shallow mass graves, just so that some future group might dig it up in a couple decades.