Trump’s MAGA Agenda Means Gutting America’s Truly Great Past |
Donald Trump is trying to erase the 20th century.
For those of you too young to remember back that far, he is also going after what we’ve gone through in the past two and a half decades as well.
With a thoroughness that is surprising for a man who barely seems to know where he is at any given moment, Trump is rapidly eliminating many of the United States’ most important accomplishments during the period that marked our rise as a superpower.
It is almost as if he wishes to reverse that rise.
In just the first weeks of this year, we have seen him attack the foundations of our international leadership. He has threatened to annex Greenland—to take arms against a NATO ally, if required, and thereby destroy the North Atlantic Alliance that has been one of the world’s most important stabilizing forces for nearly eighty years.
He has withdrawn the United States from 66 international organizations, further weakening the global order we have sought to maintain since the end of the Second World War. In so doing, he undermines vital initiatives with regard to culture, the environment and the spread of democracy.
He has also threatened our neighbors with U.S. “domination” of the region, a violation of all the principles that underpin hemispheric relations, not to mention the United Nations Charter, a binding treaty to which the U.S. was not only a signatory but the principal author.
He has announced further tariffs to go along with a sweeping assault on the international trading system (also a key product of post-war international economic policies). And should the Supreme Court decide that these