Under the Trump administration, America is retreating from hard power, surrendering soft power, and yielding economic power, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. Is this what greatness looks like?
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The US is a failed state. It’s time for all sane nations to drop the US dollar for international trading and liquidate all US treasury bonds. A robust retaliatory measure to combat the destabilizing trump regime. Get in early! The US dollar will depreciate exponentially once the divestment starts.😎
Does he surrender hard power, or does he just redirect it towards imperialist bullying and conquest, mainly against former allies. In the long term, the Trump administration will weaken the US in many ways, but for the next years, they have terrible military power to abuse.
As Trump touts "America First" all of his actions lead to "America Last" in the world.
His tariffs turn the US into a pariah state.
He trashed the US int'l image, attacking allies through various types of threats, including invasion.
HIs small minded, short sighted views shrink a once great nation.
I find it amazing how Trump and his MAGA enablers were able to destroy America’s reputation and standing in the world in just a few months. All for an economic gamble that most economists regard as a fallacy. This is what happens when you surround yourself with people who are loyal but incompetent.
We will fix it. Once the orange menace is out of office, and Republicans lose the next election with a historic defeat, we will rebuild things the way they should be
well-we've alienated our allies -even Canada for God's sake - they've moved on to a new world order & trade regime that we're not part of- it's self-destruction - in less than 3 months we've isolated ourselves & lost our status as the world leader - or even A world leader - we the people will suffer
America is NOT doing this. It’s Trump, White nationalists, apocalyptic evangelicals, federalists and a parade of morons that represents everything that is the opposite of American values.
Stop blaming the country. This is not a casual failing.
America wanted the easy identitarian and authoritarian “fixes” those groups were selling so much that it empowered them to weaponize America as a self-parody that IS doing this.
Trump's admirers can't tell "greatness" from bullying arrogance. They crave for thuggishness. When it fails to deliver any improvement to their daily lives – worsening it, actually – they will blame anything and anyone but MAGA and themselves. Then they'll order some more thuggishness.
Right. The "just give us our tax cuts" crowd isn't going to be living well either after Trump destroys the economy, public health and national security.
Trump’s record start:
* Record loss of US soft power & alliances.
* Record wealth depletion/stock market loss.
* Record corruption, self-dealing, & stupidity.
* Record intentional infliction of socioeconomic harm.
* Record destruction to healthcare, social safety net progs, & environ.
#TrumpDecline
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His tariffs turn the US into a pariah state.
He trashed the US int'l image, attacking allies through various types of threats, including invasion.
HIs small minded, short sighted views shrink a once great nation.
TFG, who is a losing loser who loses, is doing that to America.
And I, for one, don't like it!
Education, research, healthcare, is being destroyed with nothing for replacement
We have voluntarily ceded our exceptionalism.
Stop blaming the country. This is not a casual failing.
(on a tiny part of the world)
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/science-technology-data/doge-putting-countrys-data-and-computing
* Record loss of US soft power & alliances.
* Record wealth depletion/stock market loss.
* Record corruption, self-dealing, & stupidity.
* Record intentional infliction of socioeconomic harm.
* Record destruction to healthcare, social safety net progs, & environ.
#TrumpDecline