I don’t buy into the pendulum theory. I think it is a red herring. I have been observing a slow but steady descent into the maelstrom since 1973. And I do not know what the remedy is.
All I know is, politically speaking, we have seen conservative times, liberal times, more than once each on roughly 80 years peak to peak.
In the scheme of human history, 80 years is a very short time.
Each liberal or low-liberty cycle has ended when those in control over-reached to the point the masses recognized it and threw it off. In the past 20 years the liberals have overreached with more and more recognizing the over-reach to now many are ready to rebel. This (hopefully) ending liberal cycle began with Teddy Roosevelt and will end with nobama.