I suspect it goes much deeper than the Donald, or even America, but the nature of society and reality.

There are centrifugal and centripetal forces in every society. The energies of youth, versus the lessons of age, the anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.

Like the young, liberalism is expansive, always looking over the next horizon and not to be held back.

While conservatism is that centripetal element, basically of culture and civics, holding society together and giving that locus of structure, especially when things are chaotic.

Given it is the past that gives us culture, while youth looks to the future, conservatives naturally looked dated, biased and limited.

Yet the dynamic is inexorable. The whole woke, deconstructionist movement of today amounts to a calcification and institutionalization of the counter culture in which the Baby Boomers came of age, back in the 60's and 70's. Now viewing the religious and social conformity to which they rebelled as no longer just the parents, but the enemy, especially as transmitted to subsequent generations.

Yet this movement remains inherently anarchic. The problem of which is that it has no bounds. Once the perimeter has been pushed out, say over issues of sex and the usual drama and trauma of adolescence, being the prime concern of youth, then some new letters must be found, some further boundaries to be crossed.

Eventually the Tower of Babel stage is reached and society falls apart.

That some New York real estate hustler appears to be the locus giving focus to our current situation, only goes to show how extreme the situation has become.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.