The Road to Ruin - umair haque

Interesting take on what the American right is toying with now.
https://medium.com/bad-words/the-demagogue-s-price-15b071e2e8c9

"Peaceful prosperity is one of humanity's most recent accomplishments: only in the last century have we truly understood it, nurtured it, protected it, and built a global political order for it."

Decline of civilization pattern theorized as:

1. demagogues turn stagnation turn into depression. 
2. harm to the most vulnerable.
3. unpersoning. 
4. demagogues upend the foundational civilizational principle of prosperity through peace with plunder through war.
5. we become the predators we once detested.