He draws on an intellectual tradition that, like Marxism, sees revolution as inevitable, even morally necessary. “What we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful that new political order becomes itself,” Bannon told the Washington Post recently. Then comes the “Fourth Turning,” the cataclysmic failure of the old order as a new one arrives, leading into the high of a new cycle. A lifespan after that, the Second World War created the great 20th century American superpower. It had a Fourth Turning with the 1917 Revolution, an awakening in the 1950s, and a Fourth Turning with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Source: National Post February 10, 2017 18:22 UTC