
Trump Intent on Transforming U.S. into Pariah State
William Boot's latest dispatch

The United States is no longer the leader of the free world. We have aligned ourselves with Russia, Hungary, and North Korea.
Someday, perhaps someday soon, when the U.S. — long the cornerstone of an alliance of global democracies that have kept the peace and delivered unparalleled economic prosperity to the world for 80 years — stands alone as a pariah kleptocratic state led by an authoritarian white nationalist regime, historians will point to Friday, February 28, 2025, as the day the U.S. turned its back on the world and its historic legacy of fighting for freedom.