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After the US midterm rout of Trumpism, the world struggles to trust America again (apnews.com)
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For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.

The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.

Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.

But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.

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[–] 4 points 2 days ago

Nothing's gonna change. For me to think things are starting to change, this had to be a blue supermajority. It wasn't. It was a close call. Blue won, but it wasn't a victory so big that they got a supermajority in both houses which means there's a fucking huge portion of usians still believing in maga.

This means we might have a 2-year pause from the US of doing awful things (MIGHT), but there won't be a guarantee in the next elections they choose again another pedohitler.

It takes years to build trust and only a moment to shatter it. This next two years will be key to see if you are starting to rebuild that trust, but unless you purge the present administration and set in place the foundations for this to never happen again, this will not be considered a good start; just a pause in your shitty dictatorship.

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