Samuel Huntington observed 'convulsions' every 60 years in American history: > American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Har

Samuel Huntington observed 'convulsions' every 60 years in American history: > American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every 60 years or so: the Revolutionary period of the 1760s and ’70s; the Jacksonian uprising of the 1820s and ’30s; the Progressive Era, which began in the 1890s; and the social-protest movements of the 1960s and early ’70s. * https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america/616581/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing... The 2020s was about when the US was 'due' for something to happen, so the next decade or so will apparently be a bit of a ride.