I say "for a generation" for two reasons. One, I'm an optimist and I want my country to not be a failure forever - and I am differentiating our foreign damage f

I say "for a generation" for two reasons. One, I'm an optimist and I want my country to not be a failure forever - and I am differentiating our foreign damage from the domestic damage which is more repairable in the short term. Two, nothing is forever in the world, and countries can come back from pariah status. The US is still a military and economic powerhouse, it spans the oceans, it's the breadbasket of much of the world. I think it will take some kind of electoral/structural reform for us to be taken seriously again.