If you mean history repeats itself, you bet... but you're quoting beliefs of people over what the word of God says... that's my objection.
Ok, let's leave out "people's beliefs" and focus on these two indisputable facts:
1) According to 2 Thessalonians 2:5,6 Paul himself told the Thessalonians who the Restrainer was and they knew for certain.
2) The Early Church Fathers
with one accord, with one voice, in spectacular unanimity, without exception and without disputation, claim that Paul told them it was the Roman Empire - Paul himself, not ECF beliefs, but Paul himself identified it to them as such.
From this we must conclude one of two things:
1) Either Paul or the ECF or both were LYING, and the Restrainer is yet now preventing the rise of Antichrist, or
2) Paul and the ECF were telling the TRUTH and the Antichrist did arise just after the fall of the Roman Empire during a great "falling away" period of apostasy, and in response to the attacks of the Reformers during the Protestant Reformation, the Antichrist sent out two competing Jesuit 16th century interpretations, Preterism (teaches that Antichrist came in the first century AD) and Futurism (teaches Antichrist will come after the church is raptured away, in the middle east, to sit in a newly rebuilt Jewish temple during a 7 year period of tribulation). I simply choose to go with the Bible, Paul, and the ECF over the words of Jesuit priests, but I respect the opinions of others as well.