Source: Persuasion
by Damon Linker
“Has a major world power ever intentionally inflicted so much damage on itself in such a constricted period of time? I’m sometimes inclined to reach for a vivid and bloody metaphor to describe it: The world is watching us, stunned, while we slit our own throat — with our initiation of trade wars with countries around the globe … our president’s display of pathetically gullible obsequiousness to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin; with firing the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for refusing to go along with the anti-vaccination ignorance of the Secretary of Health and Human Services; with attempting to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors … with the president militarizing the nation’s capital and threatening to deploy troops to other cities around the country.” (09/03/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/america-is-choosing-decline