gerry: i am back with george friedman.tly united states, that the presidential election coming up in a matter of months. we still don't know who the democratic nominee is going to be. it looks increasingly like or we could have bernie sanders. the next presidential election this year it be to political outsiders. donald trump from four years ago he wasn't given a hope by many people the republican side. a nationalist, and economic nationalist very much against the grain of the republican party for the last 20 or 30 years. on the democratic side we could have a self-declared socialist very much different than the democratic party. what is that tell us about american 2020? >> during the crisis, the outsiders come in. so it's not as if we've had a highly successful corps of politicians who we can turn to. we have very questionable ones. that part of the public like him precisely because he was an outsider. and then turning sanders i love to win or not, but they're turning to sanders for the same reason. the democratic party i

visit truetoyourheart.com gerry: i am back with the founder of political futures george friedman.1st century has not so far at least worked out particularly well for the united states there's a paradox there because we ended the 20th century, the 1990s with america the single global power. the soviet union had been defeated, people talked about a unipolar world unites it seem to dominate all. since 2000 we've had terrorism, disappointing wars in iraq and afghanistan, we had a financial crisis we've had withdrawal. it is not been a great 20 years. what's gone wrong? >> in 1991 for the first time in five years there was a single european global power there's only one global power, the united states. it was the first country the staged a revolution against imperialism, but there was. it did not have the institution managing and it did not manage it. had a world war ii model. they attacked us, we are going to hit them with everything we have. so there is no settled a anything. we have learned a great deal. barack obama and donald trump, although they would not admit it had a similar v