Is there a name yet for the American suicide that Trump is executing?
You know the one:
- The loss of the dollar as the world currency
- The gradual selling (and long term lack of buying) of American debt, thus requiring we stop living beyond our means, probably quite suddenly
- The loss of countries’ willingness to sign trade deals with us
- The ending of our tech companies’ ability to sell software or services to any other countries
- The loss of special treatment of our passport holders
- The end of our worldwide scientific leadership, because we’ve killed scientific funding, poisoned what was left with anti-woke politics, and made people afraid to move here
- The end of the primacy of our schools, meaning the world’s best and brightest no longer move here
- Our hard turn away from the green future built around renewables, electric power, and EVs, ensuring our built world will be obsolete and our industries will get destroyed by more modern international competitors
- Killing immigration by making it both undesirable and dangerous, pushing us into the kind of aging population crisis that Japan and South Korea are experiencing
- Ending all trust not just in us as a country but us as a people. Bush already caused much of the world to not trust us, but any residual confidence is now gone
I suppose it will just get called the American Suicide(tm), maybe even the Great American Suicide. That seems to have room for too much confusion, but I suppose in the future, the phrase will always have a clear meaning, like “The Great War” and “the Great Depression”.