Back then, we only had Bukele (president of El salvador) as the national leader that was actively and loudly pushing for crypto adaption. Then Trump followed and now we have so many candidates for presidency and already presidents pushing for bitcoin. I think that this is a testament to how much bitcoin has grown that not only your average citizens know and use bitcoin but also presidents. Bitcoin mass adaption might come a lot sooner than everyone initially thought.
I'll agree with otu that the El Salvador government is the legend that other governments has now been attracted to follow.
What I know about the individuals currently emerging to hold the staff of leadership such as the presidencies is that they've watched the world future from a distance and had sighted the geopolitical sentiments on stock regulations and manipulations has tendencies of crippling the world economy While decentralized blockchains like bitcoin as it maybe, it should be questionable why U.S would bargain on adopting bitcoin for federal reserve. That intuition specifically entaiks that there's going to be trouble in the Centralized markets.