Report Card for Donald Trump

[Eric the Green]

That's right. The Crisis of 08 gave us the conditions we see today, in Europe and America. I also keep pointing out that you need to see our times most clearly as a repeat of the 1850s. We can't have a regeneracy like 1933 because our nation is stalemated and divided like it was in 1853. We are stuck, and the breakthrough will only come near the end of the 4T in the mid to late 2020s, which will have analogies to the early 1860s. To a lesser degree the 2020s will also rhyme with progressive decades: 1900s and 1960s (and maybe the 1840s, and especially the 1770s and 1780s too).

The depression of this 08 era also extended to the Middle East, where drought and starvation as well as rising youth activism from the late 00s aroused the Arab Spring revolts, and this was to a large extent a worldwide phenomenon from 2011-2015. The resulting civil wars (especially in Syria) continue and have helped bring on Brexit and Trumpism in Europe and America because of the refugees.