J. P. K: Having worked as a teacher, I can`t believe it might not happen- I believe it`s already like that!  Too often, students are taught in our culture that their entitlements are paramount, that the demands of the imperious self may always be satisfied before any other consideration. The Trump phenomenon is merely a single brilliant embodiment of a cultural tendency  created over decades.
About getting old and being glad you won`t have to struggle with it,  well, I think it`s a rule that everybody is born into difficult times - the chief difficulty lying in finding the way to become a decent human being. The various religious and social institutions, however, that should be there to facilitate that search, are always compromised and challenged to greater or lesser degrees in each generation, though the personal responsibility to make the effort remains. Being a catholic I believe in the Communion of Saints - in trying to be a power for good, we have help and we can all help!