Even with the scale of corruption we've seen in Trump's first term, should Trump get re-elected Schlesinger's prediction could be uncannily accurate, down to the very year.
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this seems a lot like strauss-howe generational theory if I'm not missing something
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Trump's corruption is uniquely blatant, but the idea that executive appointees write policy based on the whims of people they will go to work for once they're out of office is so ingrained now i suspect the "cycle" part remains an illusion
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And fifty years before Grant, there was Jackson, so maybe this guy is onto something.
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Nixon was just as corrupt in 1968
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Ever since Empedocles, historians love a cycle.
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