I went to high school in Western Europe. We were tough 20th century European history not about dates, names and major event inflections. We were taught socio-political developments across regions and countries that lead to headline upheavals, wars and specifically the rise of authoritarianism that replaced most monarchies. Every evolution followed the same formula culminating in two world wars. Today Putin, Trump and Erdogan are following the same formula. Trump especially is not even bothering to hide his intentions as evident in his actions and words. So far he has denigrated the judiciary, tries to discredit the media, intelligence agencies are apparently all corrupt and plotting against him, the electoral system is rigged, Mexicans are rapists and Islam is evil etc. All these in the first six weeks of a presidency. What do you think he is going to do in the next four years???? Study 20th century socio-political history. You will then see why I am so pessimistic