Dr. Peter Turchin's 'secular cycles' quite clearly point to the cause - massive inequalities in society. And psychologist Andrzej Lobabczewski's book 'Political Ponerology', written 40 years ago, echoes and predates Dr. Turchin's historical cycles and also lays out a route-map for a descent into totalitarianism in ANY nation, though he raised particular concerns about the USA.
That descent is based on a class of psychopathological people rising to power. Not, for example, just Trump, but Trump and psychopathological sidekicks.
Dr. Peter Turchin's 'secular cycles' quite clearly point to the cause - massive inequalities in society. And psychologist Andrzej Lobabczewski's book 'Political Ponerology', written 40 years ago, echoes and predates Dr. Turchin's historical cycles and also lays out a route-map for a descent into totalitarianism in ANY nation, though he raised particular concerns about the USA.
That descent is based on a class of psychopathological people rising to power. Not, for example, just Trump, but Trump and psychopathological sidekicks.