All systems are subject to a life cycle. This applies to biological and non-biological systems including nations.
Systems start small, grow, reach their pick and then start decaying until they disintegrate and disappear.
The USA has already passed its pick and Trump is a good symptom of that. Which country besides one in already an exorable phase of decadence would elect Trump for president.
"We cannot blame everything on Donald Trump, much though we might want to. In the decadent stage of the Roman Empire, or of Louis XVI’s France, or the dying days of the Habsburg Empire so brilliantly captured in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, decadence seeped downward from the rulers to the ruled. But in a democracy, the process operates reciprocally. A decadent elite licenses degraded behavior, and a debased public chooses its worst leaders. Then our Nero panders to our worst attributes — and we reward him for doing so...."
