Trump as FDR: Generation-Defining Systemic Change
Geopolitical expert George Friedman sees what's happening now as an institutional shift as great as the New Deal.
NOTE: Last week I published George Friedman’s “Crisis and Rebirth: America’s Dangerous Decade Ahead”. In it, George describes the magnitude of the Crisis facing us, as for the first time in American history, both the Institutional and Socio-Economic Cycles he identifies end at exactly the same time.
As I said then, I’ve spent a good bit of time talking and writing about the cycles that exist within linear history. Most ancient cultures assumed that history was cyclical, and thus that no progress was possible. The idea of linear time and historical progress is distinctly Christian, though it has been taken up since by others. This is the correct view, but it does not negate the existence of cycles, a facet of reality that the ancients saw without realizing it was merely part of a greater whole.
I have particularly focused attention on Neil Howe’s work (see my short review in “My 10 Favorite Books of 2024”), but George Friedman here posits two different cycles whose ends are about to conv…
