SomeGuy Wrote:A regeneracy does not imply that all problems are solved, only that a consensus has been reached about how society is going to try to solve them, and that the populace is willing to allow them to play it out for the remainder of the 4T.I just saw this. Here you are assuming your premises. You are assuming the 4T will end soon. Thus, if Trump manages to win a second term, a feat achieved by 78% of the presidents in my lifetime, 2016 will be a regeneracy because Trump will have been the last president of the 4T. Now think about what that means. It says a 4T is such a nothing-burger that whichever party is in control when the generations involved in a 4T are getting too old and so the turning must end defines the structure of the turning.
Past American 4Ts were obvious crises. So you invoke the Glorious 4T that was also a nothing-burger like this one. But exactly what is crisis-like about the Glorious 4T? Yeah we had an Indian war that because the American population in New England was low looks like a big war in terms of casualties per capita. By this measure the second most deadly "war" in American history was the 1634 skirmish between the Pilgrims and Puritans that killed 2. I don't doubt that King Phillips war was a crisis for the New England colonies, but so were all such events for the people affected. And it was over in 1676. Where is the 4T?