I don’t think he’s the reason for things. The American empire has been in blatant decay for a decade now (due to corruption at every level, mostly) and other countries have been rising as regional powers. The anational capitalists who control America and have politicians of both sides of the false dichotomy/bad cop good cop routine in their pockets understand they have to play a different game than the one championed by the MIC if they want to maximise profits. As such, America will change from a heavily propagandised, hedonistic and amoral consumer base and arm of Western imperialism to a heavily propagandised slave base and arm of anational global capitalism. You just can’t exploit foreigners as easily as you could before. Donald Trump, the great white hope, the comedian, is simply the right man for the job so he was supported by everyone except the neocons/MIC dickriders (Biden is here) because everyone benefits from American collapse (the Russians and Chinese included, ofc, not just American oligarchs) besides the American population. And this happened not because Trump cast a spell on people but because enough Americans are stupid, amoral, self-centered and overall horrible human beings, that’s all. All your villains are your neighbours! You’re not getting colonized by an external power, you’re getting colonized by Bob and Jimmy, lol. So no, Trump is not the reason, the people, the state of the American empire and the desire of the global controllers of financialised capital are. Trump is just the distraction and scapegoat, a distracting and disorienting clown, the actor given the lines he needs to say to keep spinning it all.

And, btw, nothing that’s happening in America is even 1% of what it has done outside of it, or what it did to the natives and Africans. Expect more, because the empire has learned well, throughout the years and “different” administrations. This is nothing but the empire going hungry and cannibalising itself because those it used to feed upon can now fight a little.

And, finally, If you’re just gonna pass the ball to the Dems because you think “well, at least when they were in power the deaths and uncertainty were happening mostly outside than in” you’re both silly and immoral. This project will continue, there’s no stopping this train, because the people truly in power have enough money to buy any politician and the blue ones don’t have any more morals than the red ones, they’re just whores waiting for a good payday. At least tell me you’re going to vote for a group with proven morals and no support from big corporations and asset management firms (if they exist). 🥲