The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.

Universities, the federal government, and private industry combined during this period to transform private life.

Common sense, the ability to see consequences far removed from the technical issues, has been banished.

Because it invents new ways of doing things and assumes that progress comes from intellectual activity, the technocracy is also seen as a revolt against tradition and traditional values.

and those who will be falling into the abyss are not a small marginal class but a large, multiracial, multiethnic class containing equal numbers of women and men.

constant entanglement under the guise of management cannot be sustained.

and the nation begins to entertain the possibility that the American project has failed.

The 2024 election will be the critical one because it will elect the last president of the Reagan cycle. As with Jimmy Carter or Herbert Hoover, the president will face significant economic and social problems, and what he will do is apply the basic principles of the Reagan era: lowering taxes and reducing regulations. This will be the case with ei

Politics isn’t the engine pushing the system. The system is pushing politics.