Yes the US was shamefully arrogant about Covid (bipartisinly so) but saying the Trump electorate is racist basically destroys the article's credibility. The US

Yes the US was shamefully arrogant about Covid (bipartisinly so) but saying the Trump electorate is racist basically destroys the article's credibility. The US has historically been in the top tier of nations because of 1. their universities, 2. their acceptance of immigrants 3. their culture (Hollywood etc) 4. public works (GPS, internet, etc). Perhaps the US is on the decline. The apex of the Byzantine empire after all was Justinian's plague. I wouldn't say the US decline is due to a failure to enact socialist policies though. Europe is hardly the world center of creativity and innovation.