>By exiting these entities, President Trump is saving taxpayer money and refocusing resources on America First priorities.
Taking a look at the actual list, many of these organizations deal with issues such as climate change, environmental protection, and education. I think this means two things: One, the U.S. is further breaking away from the rest of the world. Trump's "America First" policies have effectively broke alliances and trust. Two, the current administration is quite heavily biased against clean energy. A majority of the organizations left are governing/advising on environmental issues, namely renewable energy and climate change. Trump frames the decision as "pro-America"; Trump says "our" values, he means his/his party's. I don't think that many people who have put at least a little research into the subject would agree that a) Climate change is not an issue and b) Renewables are (or at least getting to be) a good alternative to our currently climate-change exacerbating sources of power. The U.S. is going to be divided more and more along party lines, and it's going to get harder and harder to stop.
It's also before second wave feminism, the Civil Rights Movement, and the eco friendly shift that began in the 1960s. 1967 haunts the American regressive right wing in more ways than they ever want to acknowledge, as that's the year when they finally lost control.
It's like they don't realise the bulk of their power is a consequence of the rest of the world agreeing that some kind of world order, no matter how flawed, is more desirable that a world of empires fighting for power and bullying everyone else into submission.
That's going to be an interesting century, and I very much doubt the US will be as relevant as today by the end of it.
Republicans since Reagan have prioritized tax cuts as an end in themselves, treating deficit concerns as secondary
Democrats have generally accepted the post-1990s norm of PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) budgeting more consistently
Trump has been remarkable effective and impactful, for a US President.
His term makes me think maybe we DON'T want Presidents, as they're too powerful and it's too risky a structural design.
The damage we're talking about will last for generations.
I attribute this more to the relative difficulty to destroy compared with the effort required to create.
It's easier to burn bridges than build them.
It's easier to forfeit external relations saboteurially than to be a decent f person and listen.
They just forfeited 66 very big deals. When they run away like that, they forfeit.
Or we could go back to actually following Constitutional intent. In that, the executive branch isn't the most powerful at all. Congress is.
I have Zero fundamental understanding of governing, or best-practices for representational government, nor for my own / USA's system. And I wonder wtf should I actually know, in order to fore-arm myself for this upcoming period where the USA must adapt to the perils of this new age.
The USA has a population of around 0.4 billion.
Until a future administration corrects course, the future will be one demoralizing failure after another.
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It's hard to think of a plausible scenario in which America carries on like this using hard power alone.
I hate to invoke Godwin's law, but Germany was once the most reviled country in the world and is now, arguably, the most influential country in the European Union. Clearly, damage much worse than what the US has done over Trump's two terms can be repaired over time.
I think we're on the cusp of it right now. The ICE murders make it more and more untenable and indefensible for the average American to defend without sounding crazy. But even if this doesn't do it, or an invasion of Greenland somehow doesn't do it, the big question will be: can MAGA even survive as a movement without Trump?
> Until a post-WWII style reckoning can be had, I am not optimistic that reputational repair can happen.
I fully agree. A third Reconstruction is needed in this country.
Arguably the first two didn't go far enough.
To achieve your goal, you have to go one step further and remove deviators from parliamentary bodies too.
Welcome the era of political own goals.
Which, at present, seems quite a ways off still.
Three years, tops.
Watching the two new ICE shootings, could be next week though.
Total governmental assets come to around $25T. $38T in debt is bad, but that doesn't represent net worth.
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