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- A historian teaching a university course on American history in the year 2100, roughly 80 years from now, would explain what’s happening in America today in the same way one teaching in 2025 would explain what happened 80 years ago with the beginning of the post-war world in 1945.
No progress without blood, no blood except that of the poor, the sick, the very young, the very old, the disabled.
And this is the optimistic take?
Leyden talks a lot about how 'the benefit of trump is the destruction' without any addressing of the cost. Or I guess its worth it.
Gotta love anybody who advertises themselves as a "thought leader on the future." Gotta love 'em more when they're trying to teach you history. Beyond that, this is archetypal Fourth Turning bullshit - "Donald Trump finally provided the wrecking ball — on his second try" is why Steve Bannon was all in on Trump the first time. It's accelerationist garbage based on a really loose read of economics. Which is what you'd expect on a site founded buy this guy.