>The United States of America spent a hundred years building up a global leadership position. President Trump has effectively destroyed it in a mere four months

>The United States of America spent a hundred years building up a global leadership position. President Trump has effectively destroyed it in a mere four months. I'm no Trump fan, but the slide in American global leadership has been underway since well before Trump. Probably the first big blow was our unilateral invasion of Iraq under Bush. But even under Obama we didn't exactly right the ship. And while Clinton would have tried to restore our image, in the long run I don't think she would make a big difference. Countries used to look to America as the leader of liberal globalism because there basically was no alternative. Now there's a few alternatives.