Is Trump is the spearhead of an agenda to reset the cycle of the US empire, as defined by Glubb, in his Fate of Empires?
It appears he's replacing the manifest destiny / pioneer mythos with a new space faring one (space force and space colonization?), and reinvigorating the industrial economy, and purging the institutionalized decadence (The Swamp, corporate welfare, etc.), similar to what Rome did twice, in order to reset the empire cycle.
Glubb noted that the average age of empires since the time of ancient Assyria (859-612 B.C.) is 250 years. Only the Mameluke Empire in Egypt and the Levant (1250-1517) made it as far as 267 years. America is 244 years old and is exhibiting signs of decline.
According to Glubb, All empires begin with the age of pioneers, followed by ages of conquest, commerce, affluence, intellect and decadence. America appears to have reached the age of decadence, which Glubb defines as marked by “defensiveness, pessimism, materialism, frivolity, an influx of foreigners, the welfare state, [and] a weakening of religion.”
Decadence, he writes, “is due to: Too long a period of wealth and power, selfishness, love of money [and] the loss of a sense of duty.”