America’s reputation has declined further over the past year among many key allies and partners. In several countries, the share of the public with a favorable view of the U.S. is as low as it has been at any point.
Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of the facts. Ronald Reagan represents American greatness. Donald Trump embodies its worst impulses.
Donald Trump is not making America great again. In fact, global respect for the US has rarely been worse.
“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” daughter Meghan McCain said, setting the tone for eulogies by Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
One almost irrefutable lesson from world history is that those who build walls or seek to isolate themselves in order to protect and preserve and prevent or limit inevitable change ALWAYS lose in the end.
Managing our country’s foreign policy is, by constitutional design and practical necessity, the most important task of the modern US president. Electing a person like Trump with little knowledge and competence in this area is deeply troubling.
