Right from the beginning people were predicting that uprisings would be provoked so that someone needed to bring "order".

National governments get discredited for their handling of Covid. You either think they did too much, or not enough.

It's also possibly that the whole thing just discredits "adults" in the minds of the young. As if their youth has been squandered by a bunch of squabbling stupid grey-haired politicians and experts ... and then something new and radical can be offered to them as a solution.