This is the problem. You’re demanding that young voters just naturally show up for multiple voting cycles before you think politicians should try to court them. Why on earth would you expect that to work? Would you expect that to work for black voters or women? Voter motivation doesn’t rise and fall based on its own, it’s something politicians actively work to inspire. It wasn’t an accident that Obama had great turnout and Clinton had poor turnout.
This is the problem. You’re demanding that young voters just naturally show up for multiple voting cycles before you think politicians should try to court them. Why on earth would you expect that to work? Would you expect that to work for black voters or women? Voter motivation doesn’t rise and fall based on its own, it’s something politicians actively work to inspire. It wasn’t an accident that Obama had great turnout and Clinton had poor turnout.