Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Imperial America

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that "the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come" in 2025, just 15 years from now[...]"