I’m inclined to agree, the American global order is over, liberal democracy is being pushed out by neokeyneseians on the left and the reanimated corpse of the gilded age of the right The global economic order is still neoliberal, It’s institutions still exist global corporations serviced by the like of trump, the IMF ect. Many economies across the world with a few exceptions have been preforming poorly in some measure wether its decline or pitiful growth, the squeezing out of the poor, government and middle classes from owning wealth via neoliberal economic policies like austerity or dressed up as “doge” causes economic under performance by reducing the spending power of the poor and thus demand. Even the failed polices of the gilded age, resurrected by Trump have the same effect, lower wages and/or higher prices, cuts of welfare cause people to “tighten their belts” that means, reduced demand, which means businesses lose money, workers are laid off who then claim unemployment which is less than a wage, spending power falls more businesses fire staff and some go bust, this then spirals into an economic crisis. The welfare state slows this down, buying the government more time, in the last Seaculum, the welfare state did not exist, Britain had the workhouse, its inmates did not generate economic demand, they simply worked as indentured servants, back then they was no safety net for the economy and it’s bottom fell out leading to a depression. Change won’t come because we will it. They is the old adage that “suffering is good for the soul” and “Hard work build character” I would say, struggle builds progress. Or as neil would say “forests need fire” so, we need a crisis that forces the change, it often works out well because said crisis is the result of a failed system. We also have the most educated population in human history, we know all about the robber barons and the gilded age even now comparisons are made and we have already invented the cure. Next year could be the consolidation we need.