Dragonlady
Designing Woman
Yes, Trump's agenda is for the United States to stop being the global policeman. The job of the federal government is to do what's best for Americans first. The rest of the world can take a distant second. That's the way it should be been all along. Your belief that American should be some giant welfare agency to the entire world is pure idiocy.The End of the American Century
The inaugural address of Donald Trump did not contain the word justice or cooperation or ideals or morals or truth or charity. It has only one reference to freedom.
What it really means is America as a global model and guarantor of freedom and rule of law and fairness.
Trump ’s administration is the death knell of the American Century.
And wherever we may disengage around the world, we are never replaced by a better actor. The president’s vision of putting up our national drawbridge and hunkering down mirrors the transformation of Great Britain to Little England after the end of World War II. The American Century was a term of pride for many and it represented the flowering not only of American power but American values.
The American Century, RIP.
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The country has diverged so far from what made it great that Trump supporters will look at what is written and insist it's more rants from a far left nut.
They don't even know what: guarantor of freedom, rule of law and fairness even means.
The most truly weird thing is they believe isolationism and protectionism will somehow bring us economic success.
What is pure idiocy is your view that the "leadership" the US provided is only with regards to military intervention. The leadership was moral, not military. It was one of openness, co-operation and inclusion under which your country flourished.
Trump's path is shrinking your markets, not expanding them. Travel to the US in down and tourists are no longer flocking to your shores. Your trading partners are finding other markets for their goods and services, and companies are rethinking expanding or locating in the US. due to increasing civil unrest.
Trump's agenda is completely stalled and there is no evidence he will get anything done. His tax cuts and reforms were dependent on repealing and replacing the ACA since tax cuts can't be adding to the deficit 10 years after they are passed. That's why W's tax cuts had an expiry date.
The only thing Trump has been successful with is creating chaos, dysfunction and deepening racial divisions in the country. His constant attacks on the media, immigrants and the left are pushing the country into civil unrest.
Trump blames the media, but that's because Trump always blames others for his failures. Nothing is ever his fault.