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Trump has done/is doing generational harm to the perception of the US worldwide, to say nothing of US soft-power influence. It's going to take decades to rebuil
by ropable 8mo ago
Trump has done/is doing generational harm to the perception of the US worldwide, to say nothing of US soft-power influence. It's going to take decades to rebuild that trust after he's gone, and we still have a couple of years of his term to run yet.
- womitt 8mo agoRebuild? Never Failing empires rarely peak twice...
- ndsipa_pomu 8mo agoGiven that a sizeable percentage of U.S. people seem to still support Trump, I don't think trust is going to be rebuilt. There's also the massive issue of the U.S. political system that has been shown to have a fatal flaw - that would have to be fixed along with the broken two party system. I liken it to Germany rebuilding trust after WWII.
- mlrtime 8mo ago> It's going to take decades to rebuild that trust after he's gone I see this over and over again, wish there was some way to bet on it. But it would be difficult in 10 years to say cause and effect. People have short term memories unless harmed very specifically / directly. Not indirectly affected.
- jcgl 8mo ago> I see this over and over again, wish there was some way to bet on it. One can play with bond markets and various ETFs or other derivatives, depending on what you envision. But even if your bet is qualitatively correct (that trust in the US ebbs for decades), it's hard to get the timing right to make an actual bet.
- aa-jv 8mo agoTrump is just your latest excuse, American, but its not working. The rest of the world saw what Americans did to Iraq, and it has been downhill since then. You don't get to be the #1 funder of terror around the world and keep demanding glory and respect from the lackey nations you push around with those terror networks...