Yeah this is not just about Trump. Trust in the American voting public has eroded. Even if Trump's successor reverses everything he has done, America's allies will never trust the US in the same way.

Most countries are pursuing strategies to reduce any and all dependencies on the US. While the US continues to hold 20% of the worlds purchasing power (much of it concentrated among the wealthiest Americans) the rest of the world is working to make its economies as robust as possible with the remaining 80%.

We're witnessing a change in the world order. The end of American exceptionalism, leaving a power vacuum that will likely favor China and Russia for the forseeable future.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope so, but we saw what happened after Trump's first term.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He didn't have a pro tariff administration that time. His win was somewhat unexpected and it didn't seem like the republican party was ready for it. There were factions within the party that were not on board with his growing popularity.

He's surrounded himself with protrctionists now and he has a playbook (Project 2025) to follow.

This is going to have much longer lasting implications than anything from his first term. We're not even three months in and the entire world is rethinking the global economic structure and how the US should play a smaller role in it if it is no longer stable or reliable.