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I feel like they're losing in a sense that the old generation is dying out and are afraid of the younger new generations making a move. They're winning in the sense that it's way easier to manipulate people through the Internet and social media than ever.
It was the mishaps of the internet effect and social media, being inherently hierarchical and non-democratic, "owners" of virtual space dictating communication to be a-political, under the preface that people get along when they are a-political. It is the same generation that you see as winning to be the motor for losing. The reason you can't develop democracy on the internet is that "the internet" doesn't exist over public space but is solely built on private space (land or wire doesn't matter). It is always the host, not the tenants, that place the rules for being on or off.
The age-polarization was a dillemma for many generations it was always a false polarization. Unless you would consider an anarchist/libertarian community of equals participating in decision processes, all hierarchical systems of organization will float the elders to the top and youth to serve in the bottom. Whether it is GOP, or a communist party, a club, or anything else, when do you find anyone young at the top. And by what means do you expect that someone younger will be more democratic, and less of a fascist?