A new survey spanning 16 nations and regions, most of them U.S. allies, has shown the country's global image rebounded after President Joe Biden succeeded former President Donald Trump, but not a single country believed the United States any longer constituted a good example for democracy.
The reality is that Trump is just a symptom of a failing system that’s result of unbridled neoliberalism championed by Reagan. The system suffered huge back to back economic crashes in 2000 and 2008 that resulted in a massive wealth transfer to the top while leaving millions of people destitute. Right wing populism that Trump harnessed was a direct result of that.
I don’t fully agree. Like Trump is the force that is breaking the system, although I don’t like the republican party historically it’s a pretty huge divide between today-s republicans and the pre-trump republicans. And while the economic history has an effect, usually current economic situation usually has more of an effect on voting than historical ones. And from during Obama USA has had a economic boom which Trump has been riding off of until he was booted out from office.
I think Trump is more an affect of a global trend of authoritarianism and also in some part facism. (I could say far-left too, but far left has no real pull in IRL politics and is really bad at gaining political support). We see similar tendencies happening around the world. A few really good examples is India and Cyprus.
I do agree that the rich should be taxed and all that. But not taxing the rich is not what made the economic crash or made Trump unfortunately. It would easy if the problem was just right-wing politics.
I just hope we can turn this global trend where civil liberties and democracy is tarnished. (But from a conversation we had a long time ago, I remember that you want the USSR back in Russia lol, so we are not going agree on this. Although I consider that just as extreme and wild as a person voting for Trump)