Yes indeed! I forget who (which Freeper) coined the word.
It really really fits! Gorbachev began a series of reforms in the Soviet economy late in the 1980s which became known as perestroika.
We saw what happened.
The initial posting was on a thread where a Middle Eastern Muslim mufti said that America would be brought down from within just as the U.S.S.R. was. Allah would see to it. I guess he read Obama's platform.
Put in that perspective it makes even more sense.