History and politics are intimately linked, because political trends can date back centuries. The guy in the article seems to have said global backsliding was obvious in 2004 - due to the power of the Hatriots, the power of big business, and the West not ending support for autocrats - and I would think therefore it can be retrospectively identified (via 18 years of bureaucracy and data gathering) in 1986, when conspiracy theories were notable enough to be talked about by the media (in the 1980s Daniel Pipes warned about conspiracy theories being popular, saying it could lead to support for fringe candidates and then lead to political violence - not supported by said candidates per se, but certainly would be widespread terrorism on the scale of a nationwide Bleeding Kansas but with direct action, bombs, vehicular homicides, and mail tampered with sharp objects and disease spreading material). Since it was around 1980 (so possibly 1979) conspiracy theories became notable enough to be talked about by the media, I would think they actually became popular in 1961, thanks to Kennedy. Kennedy was a McCarthyist Cold Warrior and thus encouraged autocrats, Kennedy supported the missile gap only to discover it did not exist, Joe Kennedy was accused of rigging the election in Chicago and New York by using the Five Families, Kennedy was accused of being a Manchurian Candidate because he was honeytrapped (the honeytrapping was not public knowledge but there would have been leaks) Kennedy failed with the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy was hated by anti-Catholics and British-Americans, Kennedy gave lip service to civil rights (thus angering Dixiecrats) Kennedy failed to purge Russian fifth columnists from the security services and government, Kennedy appointed his brother to Secretary of State, Kennedy was accused of abusing pharmaceuticals (again this would have come through leaks) and Kennedy clashed with the CIA.
Thus Kennedy would have been supported by many conspiracy theorists but other conspiracy theorists would have seen him as a Communist agent: both types of conspiracy theorist were anti-Semites who claimed a Communist NWO and went on to blame Jews for Kennedy's tyrannicide and 9/11 and claimed that the Kennedys are part of the fictional 13 Families. Global democratic backsliding thus dates back to 1961 and we can assume an antidemocratic trend (not backsliding) can be traced back to Father Coughlan and Henry Ford in the 1930s and Quebecois nationalist support for Hitler in the 1930s. Remember the Second World War was fought to defend imperialism, not freedom: Britain and France were threatened by the fear a resurgent Germany would want to conquer France then conquer equatorial Africa, and the Sino-Japanese War cut into U.S profits in China (the U.S being concerned by the loss of profits as far back as 1920, and bureaucracy dictates that it was concerned as far back as 1902 due to the growth of Japan). Remember, the antidemocratic trend in Rome dated back before the Gracchi. In the 1920s, Oswald Spengler stated the West was in the equivalent of the Roman Republic and the Spring and Autumn Period, and the equivalent of Caesar's tyrannicides being forced to flee Rome and the funeral of Qin Shi Huangdi would be around 2060 (so potentially 2059-2061) with Sulla and Qin overtaking Zhou apparently emerging around 2000 (implying Sulla is Putin).
1/3 of the country voted for Trump. 1/3 did not vote.
Love the Hot Takes (obv), but I'd see this interview as prima facie evidence of someone (Larry) mixing history and politics.
History and politics are intimately linked, because political trends can date back centuries. The guy in the article seems to have said global backsliding was obvious in 2004 - due to the power of the Hatriots, the power of big business, and the West not ending support for autocrats - and I would think therefore it can be retrospectively identified (via 18 years of bureaucracy and data gathering) in 1986, when conspiracy theories were notable enough to be talked about by the media (in the 1980s Daniel Pipes warned about conspiracy theories being popular, saying it could lead to support for fringe candidates and then lead to political violence - not supported by said candidates per se, but certainly would be widespread terrorism on the scale of a nationwide Bleeding Kansas but with direct action, bombs, vehicular homicides, and mail tampered with sharp objects and disease spreading material). Since it was around 1980 (so possibly 1979) conspiracy theories became notable enough to be talked about by the media, I would think they actually became popular in 1961, thanks to Kennedy. Kennedy was a McCarthyist Cold Warrior and thus encouraged autocrats, Kennedy supported the missile gap only to discover it did not exist, Joe Kennedy was accused of rigging the election in Chicago and New York by using the Five Families, Kennedy was accused of being a Manchurian Candidate because he was honeytrapped (the honeytrapping was not public knowledge but there would have been leaks) Kennedy failed with the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy was hated by anti-Catholics and British-Americans, Kennedy gave lip service to civil rights (thus angering Dixiecrats) Kennedy failed to purge Russian fifth columnists from the security services and government, Kennedy appointed his brother to Secretary of State, Kennedy was accused of abusing pharmaceuticals (again this would have come through leaks) and Kennedy clashed with the CIA.
Thus Kennedy would have been supported by many conspiracy theorists but other conspiracy theorists would have seen him as a Communist agent: both types of conspiracy theorist were anti-Semites who claimed a Communist NWO and went on to blame Jews for Kennedy's tyrannicide and 9/11 and claimed that the Kennedys are part of the fictional 13 Families. Global democratic backsliding thus dates back to 1961 and we can assume an antidemocratic trend (not backsliding) can be traced back to Father Coughlan and Henry Ford in the 1930s and Quebecois nationalist support for Hitler in the 1930s. Remember the Second World War was fought to defend imperialism, not freedom: Britain and France were threatened by the fear a resurgent Germany would want to conquer France then conquer equatorial Africa, and the Sino-Japanese War cut into U.S profits in China (the U.S being concerned by the loss of profits as far back as 1920, and bureaucracy dictates that it was concerned as far back as 1902 due to the growth of Japan). Remember, the antidemocratic trend in Rome dated back before the Gracchi. In the 1920s, Oswald Spengler stated the West was in the equivalent of the Roman Republic and the Spring and Autumn Period, and the equivalent of Caesar's tyrannicides being forced to flee Rome and the funeral of Qin Shi Huangdi would be around 2060 (so potentially 2059-2061) with Sulla and Qin overtaking Zhou apparently emerging around 2000 (implying Sulla is Putin).