interesting: > steve bannon, former chief strategist and senior counselor to former president donald trump is a prominent proponent of the theory. as a documentary filmmaker, bannon discussed the details of strausshowe generational theory in generation zero. according to historian david kaiser, who was consulted for the film, generation zero "focused on the key aspect of their theory, the idea that every 80 years of american history has been marked by a crisis, or 'fourth turning', that destroyed an old order and created a new one". kaiser said bannon is "very familiar with strauss and howe's theory of crisis, and has been thinking about how to use it to achieve particular goals for quite a while." a february 2017 article from business insider titled: "steve bannon's obsession with a dark theory of history should be worrisome", commented: "bannon seems to be trying to bring about the 'fourth turning'."
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