It was, briefly, a return to the America that the world loved: The one that built a country from the "wretched refuse" of other countries, that made the working

It was, briefly, a return to the America that the world loved: The one that built a country from the "wretched refuse" of other countries, that made the working class something less than serfs, that made enormous sacrifices to liberate Europe from tyranny. This is a highly romanticised take on how other countries might have once perceived the US.