RE DK POST The anniversary

Professor
I am not going to candycoat this for you or for your readers.
It is not merely a new or unprecedented American politics of personal loyalty at all.
A politics of personal loyalty is the stock in trade, the fiat currency, of the American political system.
That is hardly what Trump did at all differently than any recent President one can name.
Trump is the first President to frankly openly and properly repudiate the very foundation of the anti Western European bias of the American Rogue Rebellion of 1776.
Trump is not merely for white folks here against minorities of color here.
That is the story that is always told. Utter nonsense.
He represents the first real high level politician's grasp of the disaster we, as a rogue anti Western Civ nation, have caused, to Western Civilization itself, in general.
The American people, especially those not of color, see this clearly now finally, probably for the first time in American history.
"...None of this, sadly, bothered our political establishments--Republican and Democratic alike--until 2016. In that year they both discovered that these disastrous policies had broken their bonds with the American people. Neither party establishment could field a candidate who could defeat Donald Trump. Trump lost his re-election bid convincingly, but in four years he created a new politics of personal loyalty without precedent in American history....
"...It took Donald Trump to reverse it, and we shall have to wait and see whether Joe Biden finds it necessary, as Barack Obama did, to act boldly somewhere else to make up for the withdrawal from Afghanistan..." DK
All the best

Professor
When the US entered WWI against the European Great Powers and for the Bolsheviks, and then forcibly dismantled them after WWII, it is hard to candycoat American ideological intentions re Western White European Civilization in general.
All the best

Professor
This one is especially hard to candycoat:
Sir Michael Howard, Lessons Of History, "1945--End of an Era?":

"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the European Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt. And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."
All the best