19 April 2025

America Self-Destructs

SHLOMO BEN-AMI

US President Donald Trump is not known for respecting science and history. From promoting unproven treatments for COVID-19 to insisting that any discussion of shameful elements of America’s past is “divisive,” he prefers to manipulate them for political ends. One wonders whether he realizes, when he waxes nostalgic about America’s historical “greatness,” that he is usually referring to times when the United States was a geopolitical weakling.

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