I have this ... weird hunch, that the generation after huge upheavals, authoritarianism rises back up. The cycle after the industrial revolution's advent of cars and the beginnings of mass market consumerism changed things was the rising nationalism that became WWI, the massive changes caused by WWI and the Spanish Influenza led to authoritarianism and nationalism in both the Axis and Allied countries.

We are hitting the nationalist wave after computers changed the landscape right now. We have these massive social disconnects between people born in the old world and people born in the new one, of experience, of finance, of power and privilege differences. I think every time society gets fractured, people's instinct is to put their trust into a central authority figure and reify cultural institutions that maintain social order. Even unjust social orders.

But I'm not a history major and would not know how to back that up very well without years of study.