Agent Orange has abandoned America’s leadership position in the world. He's stuffing his pockets to bursting with cash and letting the world blunder along willy-nilly. That seems odd. America is still the world's largest economy, supporting the world's largest military, yet Orange is ceding leadership to China and Europe. His team is incapable. We've had incapable Presidents before (Wilson, Reagan), but they had strong teams. What we have now--the strongest nation ceding power because of an inability to comprehend--is new in history.
Under some circumstances I'd think it might be good to shake ideas up a little. American leadership did some good things, like help rebuild Japan and Europe after World War Two; we kept a lid on a possible World War Three. We did bad things, like waging a pointless war in Vietnam and setting the Middle East on fire. And so on. You could make an argument that it's time for new ideas and leaders. But is there a choice? Trump is a moron. He can't lead a coalition of nations--how many foreign countries will follow an American moron? We have no plan; and we live in a chess game where a bad plan beats no plan. That's not going to lead to anyplace nice.
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