The rich are stealing everything. Gutting the corpse they created.
Pale-and-Willing on
Any Trump voter will tell you, it’s all good as long as Trump comes out ahead.
AssociateGreat2350 on
A lot of this article is just Trump apologist nonsense
>What MAGA voters received instead wasn’t renewal, but a grim revelation. The failure was never just Trump. He was the messenger. The problem is that America no longer has the political, economic or cultural capacity to deliver restoration at all.
>Trump didn’t save America. He didn’t destroy it either. He revealed it. And what he revealed is a nation exhausted, indebted, aging, and divided — still powerful, still wealthy, but no longer confident in its future.
heekma on
This nation has survived a civil war, two world wars, a massive depression, desegregation and many other challenges that would’ve sunk other nations.
We’ll survive Trump as well.
Edit: Yes, I understand we have systemic problems that extend beyond Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. My point is I choose to be hopeful rather than pessimistic. After 250 years and all the trials we’ve faced as a nation we presevered. The U.S. has never been perfect, never will be, but if I’m making a bet on our future success I’m going to look at the last 250 years as an indicator to bet on the U.S. rather than against it.
Be-skeptical on
Thanks to Media outlets like the hill and FoxNews
brimstonebridge on
To quote someone responding to a similarly fatalistic article, “I didn’t hear no bell.”
Wrong_Confection1090 on
This was fucking hilarious. “I mean if TRUMP can’t fix everything, the only logical conclusion is that it’s all doomed!” What if we tried, I don’t know, someone who wasn’t a corrupt ass-clown who no longer remembers which foreign government has the fucking Epstein negatives?
Druidgirln2n on
I don’t think so in a way Trump did America a favor it pointed out our weakness and were we must make changes for the future security of the democracy
TheBatemanFlex on
This guy also writes for NYPost and whatever “the American Conservative” is.
grmayshark on
If so the final act of America is somehow dumber and more implausible than the Rise of Skywalker
hifumiyo1 on
New law. Once an American business leader has achieved 1 billion, any further gains go right into the treasury. Musk and Zuck and Gates and Bezos make 19th century tycoons like Rockefeller look like paupers. Money is the root of evil
Frostlark on
Doomerism at it’s peak
crackasscrackuh on
This author is a right wing apologist who does not know sh%t about f#@k
Grouchy_Product9614 on
Garbage doomer article. I chose strength and hope for America’s future.
Fooby56 on
This opinion piece sucks. No mention of the Heritage Foundation, Citizens United, or the media eroding confidence in objective journalism. Just covering for Trump. Give me a break.
Agile_End_3049 on
The USA may go down in history as being the most spectacularly stupid self-induced crash and burn of a world empire.
quinnbeast on
Fixed the headline:
American Boomers have entered their final act
CanuckCallingBS on
The collapse will be catastrophic. Americans will have to fight for the right to live.
Acrobatic_Event1702 on
This is fact. America has been going down hill for years but Trump is accelerating the downfall.
SarkastikSidebar on
I graduated in 2011 with a degree in International Relations. Ever since I started my degree in 2008, I was reading articles about the inevitable decline of the American Empire. At this point I usually roll my eyes about it. If these guys keep saying it, decade after decade, they’ll eventually be right.
But this one is different. It is far more nuanced. It points out the complexities of this alleged decline and engages those complexities. The US won’t fall tomorrow. It will remain a very wealthy and powerful nation. Other states will also decline with the US. But the decline is already here, gradually eroding US wealth and power.
I’ve been reading these articles for 17 years and this one is the closest I’ve seen to realistic.
redditdoesnotcareany on
It’s a shame. As a kid growing up I could never imagine this. I also see the propaganda I was fed in the 80s and 90s, while our country was destroyed by wealthy interests. We are in the fall of Rome phase, I’m glad I won’t live long enough to see it collapse entirely
Sabiancym on
At this point now that it’s clear people like Republicans can do all of this insanity without any real fight from people who voted against them, part of me almost welcomes a complete collapse. Maybe something decent can be built from the ashes.
arcxiii on
It isn’t failing or falling but being torn down by the wealthy class to make sure they get theirs now.
xious307090 on
As long as Citizens United stands you will have politicians that represent large corporate interests first.
Campaigning in the United States is beyond expensive. The easiest way to get financing is to sell your soul to large corporations.
thoptergifts on
And it is the unlucky, average child who is born into who will suffer most.
eat_my_ass_n_balls on
the author is mighty easy on trump here.
Timeformayo on
It doesn’t surprise me that an institutional Reagan Republican fails to recognize that correctives are possible.
Raise taxes on billionaires.
Reinstitute the wealth tax.
Re-ban stock buy backs.
Eliminate the income cap on Social Security and Medicare payroll contributions.
Institute universal healthcare, which will save money.
Institute universal childcare to make it easier for families to maintain dual incomes and to boost future economic growth from a better educated workforce.
Cap the percentage of university payroll that can be spent on non-instructional activities (sports, admin, Club Ed facilities).
Audit all private contracts and begin a process of reabsorbing public functions that can be performed better by public servants.
Attack monopolies, including banning PE firms from owning more than a small percentage of any given industry. No more market rollups or institutional chokepoints that allow PE investors to siphon wealth from people who actually work and create.
Basically, undo Reaganomics. We’ve run that experiment for 45 years. It is an obvious colossal failure.
bjallyn on
We are part of a global financial ecosystem.
America isn’t going to be the only casualty.
The smart economists (probably now silenced) of Russia, China and other enemies wanted to help severely weaken America by pushing Trump-they didn’t want to destroy it. They are probably getting a little uncomfortable thinking about the eventual prospects.
JA_MD_311 on
This country is begging for a New New Deal. A true progressive populist that with large Congressional majorities will take a wrecking ball to the modern day Robber Barons who are exploiting the labor of the masses for their tax breaks, private rockets, and super yachts.
The first person to articulate that vision and welcome the hatred of the powerful will win.
Bernie Sanders was close, he just came a tad early, and while he can convey that message it will take someone with Obama’s or Mamdani’s (ineligible to be President) penchant for oratory to move masses.
Tiny-Albatross518 on
The parasite has killed the host.
I wonder where the billionaires will relocate to?
cityofninegates on
I don’t always read the articles – often come more for the comments/commentary.
But actually read this article and it is just trash. Trump apologist trash.
“He didn’t create this Mrs but hasn’t made it better.. His mistake was to govern within the broken and failing system he inherited.”
Seriously, what the fuck is this journalist smoking? Remind me not to trust the Hill again…
Striking-Cricket-724 on
That was bleak.
Responsible-Fox-1985 on
We’re going from “leader of the free world” to “chimp with nukes”
MaKingGadomUSA on
Nobody alive remembers the civil war. If we came back from that we can exist forever.
turb0_encapsulator on
The American Era of global politics lasted from 1945 – 2025.
We’re never going to recover what we lost under Trump in a single year. Our formerly closest allies no long trust us. “The West” as a concept no longer exists; killed by a bunch of white racists who prattle on about Western values without having any.
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The rich are stealing everything. Gutting the corpse they created.
Any Trump voter will tell you, it’s all good as long as Trump comes out ahead.
A lot of this article is just Trump apologist nonsense
>What MAGA voters received instead wasn’t renewal, but a grim revelation. The failure was never just Trump. He was the messenger. The problem is that America no longer has the political, economic or cultural capacity to deliver restoration at all.
>Trump didn’t save America. He didn’t destroy it either. He revealed it. And what he revealed is a nation exhausted, indebted, aging, and divided — still powerful, still wealthy, but no longer confident in its future.
This nation has survived a civil war, two world wars, a massive depression, desegregation and many other challenges that would’ve sunk other nations.
We’ll survive Trump as well.
Edit: Yes, I understand we have systemic problems that extend beyond Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. My point is I choose to be hopeful rather than pessimistic. After 250 years and all the trials we’ve faced as a nation we presevered. The U.S. has never been perfect, never will be, but if I’m making a bet on our future success I’m going to look at the last 250 years as an indicator to bet on the U.S. rather than against it.
Thanks to Media outlets like the hill and FoxNews
To quote someone responding to a similarly fatalistic article, “I didn’t hear no bell.”
This was fucking hilarious. “I mean if TRUMP can’t fix everything, the only logical conclusion is that it’s all doomed!” What if we tried, I don’t know, someone who wasn’t a corrupt ass-clown who no longer remembers which foreign government has the fucking Epstein negatives?
I don’t think so in a way Trump did America a favor it pointed out our weakness and were we must make changes for the future security of the democracy
This guy also writes for NYPost and whatever “the American Conservative” is.
If so the final act of America is somehow dumber and more implausible than the Rise of Skywalker
New law. Once an American business leader has achieved 1 billion, any further gains go right into the treasury. Musk and Zuck and Gates and Bezos make 19th century tycoons like Rockefeller look like paupers. Money is the root of evil
Doomerism at it’s peak
This author is a right wing apologist who does not know sh%t about f#@k
Garbage doomer article. I chose strength and hope for America’s future.
This opinion piece sucks. No mention of the Heritage Foundation, Citizens United, or the media eroding confidence in objective journalism. Just covering for Trump. Give me a break.
The USA may go down in history as being the most spectacularly stupid self-induced crash and burn of a world empire.
Fixed the headline:
American Boomers have entered their final act
The collapse will be catastrophic. Americans will have to fight for the right to live.
This is fact. America has been going down hill for years but Trump is accelerating the downfall.
I graduated in 2011 with a degree in International Relations. Ever since I started my degree in 2008, I was reading articles about the inevitable decline of the American Empire. At this point I usually roll my eyes about it. If these guys keep saying it, decade after decade, they’ll eventually be right.
But this one is different. It is far more nuanced. It points out the complexities of this alleged decline and engages those complexities. The US won’t fall tomorrow. It will remain a very wealthy and powerful nation. Other states will also decline with the US. But the decline is already here, gradually eroding US wealth and power.
I’ve been reading these articles for 17 years and this one is the closest I’ve seen to realistic.
It’s a shame. As a kid growing up I could never imagine this. I also see the propaganda I was fed in the 80s and 90s, while our country was destroyed by wealthy interests. We are in the fall of Rome phase, I’m glad I won’t live long enough to see it collapse entirely
At this point now that it’s clear people like Republicans can do all of this insanity without any real fight from people who voted against them, part of me almost welcomes a complete collapse. Maybe something decent can be built from the ashes.
It isn’t failing or falling but being torn down by the wealthy class to make sure they get theirs now.
As long as Citizens United stands you will have politicians that represent large corporate interests first.
Campaigning in the United States is beyond expensive. The easiest way to get financing is to sell your soul to large corporations.
And it is the unlucky, average child who is born into who will suffer most.
the author is mighty easy on trump here.
It doesn’t surprise me that an institutional Reagan Republican fails to recognize that correctives are possible.
Raise taxes on billionaires.
Reinstitute the wealth tax.
Re-ban stock buy backs.
Eliminate the income cap on Social Security and Medicare payroll contributions.
Institute universal healthcare, which will save money.
Institute universal childcare to make it easier for families to maintain dual incomes and to boost future economic growth from a better educated workforce.
Cap the percentage of university payroll that can be spent on non-instructional activities (sports, admin, Club Ed facilities).
Audit all private contracts and begin a process of reabsorbing public functions that can be performed better by public servants.
Attack monopolies, including banning PE firms from owning more than a small percentage of any given industry. No more market rollups or institutional chokepoints that allow PE investors to siphon wealth from people who actually work and create.
Basically, undo Reaganomics. We’ve run that experiment for 45 years. It is an obvious colossal failure.
We are part of a global financial ecosystem.
America isn’t going to be the only casualty.
The smart economists (probably now silenced) of Russia, China and other enemies wanted to help severely weaken America by pushing Trump-they didn’t want to destroy it. They are probably getting a little uncomfortable thinking about the eventual prospects.
This country is begging for a New New Deal. A true progressive populist that with large Congressional majorities will take a wrecking ball to the modern day Robber Barons who are exploiting the labor of the masses for their tax breaks, private rockets, and super yachts.
The first person to articulate that vision and welcome the hatred of the powerful will win.
Bernie Sanders was close, he just came a tad early, and while he can convey that message it will take someone with Obama’s or Mamdani’s (ineligible to be President) penchant for oratory to move masses.
The parasite has killed the host.
I wonder where the billionaires will relocate to?
I don’t always read the articles – often come more for the comments/commentary.
But actually read this article and it is just trash. Trump apologist trash.
“He didn’t create this Mrs but hasn’t made it better.. His mistake was to govern within the broken and failing system he inherited.”
Seriously, what the fuck is this journalist smoking? Remind me not to trust the Hill again…
That was bleak.
We’re going from “leader of the free world” to “chimp with nukes”
Nobody alive remembers the civil war. If we came back from that we can exist forever.
The American Era of global politics lasted from 1945 – 2025.
We’re never going to recover what we lost under Trump in a single year. Our formerly closest allies no long trust us. “The West” as a concept no longer exists; killed by a bunch of white racists who prattle on about Western values without having any.