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Their number one objective is to do what is best or least harmful for their country. Look at the Asia trip. If they can flatter him and give him little presents and that gets them the deal they need, they will swallow pride and do so. The problem is the US is too powerful to alienate.

No outside country can or will even try to "save" us. Hard as it is, we need to fix this ourselves and it won't be easy.

Somehow over the last several decades, we allowed the right to buy huge portions of the public media and we weren't as alarmed as we should have been as they gerrymandered every state they could when they had the legislature and governor. This led to them controlling the House at points where in a fairly districted country, they wouldn't have.

As to the courts, we likely should have pushed harder when McConnell wouldn't set hearings to replace Scalia. It probably wouldn't have worked as he did control the Senate, but it could have been a MUCH bigger issue in 2016.

I suspect that many of us may have relaxed too much when the sane, decent Biden became President, but it still absolutely mystifies me as to how Trump won in 2024 and did every terrible thing he said he would.