Author details “Turnings” or “Cycles” in American history. 80 year “institutional cycle” and 50 year “socio-economic cycle”. Both of these cycles will hit at the same time during the 2020s. There will be huge upheaval and political restructuring during this time. We’ll be on the brink of collapse and, in his estimate, we will pull through stronger than before.
He details each cycle, what led to each and how they impacted America. He wrote in the book a major crisis will kick it off, but never imagined something as big as Covid — which in a later addition he said forwarded the timescale 5 years at least.
He detests Technocrats and paints them as the main institutional structure which needs to be changed. He also claims Millennials will be the ones to carry us through the crisis. I think he puts wayyyyy to much faith in that generation.
