Nah, we've had some pretty awful presidents before-- but we def are at the end of a cycle in which the people who stand to profit off of dismantling the framework that supports functional capitalism have for the better part of a century convinced everyone else that the framework holding back the greatness that is unbridled capitalism.
edit: it's easy to infer a conspiracy theory here, and while there certainly are conspiracies that have and are furthering the trajectory we've been on all these decades, on the whole I think it's much more the ebs and flows of the zeitgeist. I think there tend to be more conspiracies at play when the few stand to gain, because it's inherently easier to conspire amongst fewer more powerful people, but there needn't be some grand council of child sacrificing bankers for any of this to play out.
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