There will be no 'regeneracy of the nation' during this next presidential term, if the author has pegged Obama rightly as a "Nomad". According to the author's own supposition, such regeneracy only occurs under a "Prophet"...
I believe you misunderstood this part.
Lincoln was despised by half the country and not exactly loved by everyone in the North. FDR’s popular support progressively declined during his four terms in office. It is the Fourth Turning events, not the nation, which elevates the person to the apex of power. The regeneracy of the nation will occur during the next [the subsequent] presidential term.He is not saying that the regeneracy will begin during the 2012 term. 2012-2016 will be like the continuing period of FDR's declining popularity and the nation's deepening gloom, and the regeneracy will not begin until after this bleak period runs its course, perhaps interrupted only by another World War sort of event.
The book makes some assumptions about the culutral make up of the USA that may no longer be true.
They didn’t facto in the Hispanic population.