The trick is that online/cherry picking news sources have worked really hard to convince the world that we need Trump and everything is so messed up. It isn't. The middle class is still growing.
It doesn't mean everything is roses, it isn't, there is still lots of problems to deal with, but pretending like we are somehow worse (aside from maybe plastic pollution) than we were 50 years ago, is a pretty privileged mindset.
The world is dealing with new forms of communication and just like what happened in War of the Worlds, people are scaring themselves because they think things are happening that really are not because they are not as savvy with the new media manipulation. It is all a smoke screen designed to keep Trump, Putin, MBS and other despots in charge.