It's probably been posted before but: philosopher Richard Rorty in 1998

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Members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots.

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.

After my imagined strongman takes charge, he will quickly make his peace with the international superrich.

Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country

Available in paperback on Amazon. No ebook, but PDFs are in the wild. Just finished it. Amazing read.

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1. First Dubya, then Trump,

or Dubya on steroids. Rorty is truly prescient.