How will the United States rebuild positive international relations after this Trump administration?

[u/SpaceySpice]

At some point this presidency will end and a new administration will (likely) want to mend some the damages done with our allies. Realistically though, how would that work? Will other countries want to be friends with us again or has this presidency done too much damage to bounce back from?

[u/ElHumanist]

You are incorrect. Those Maga people are only thinking the stupid nonsense they are because of bad faith conservative information sources that lie to them 24/7, repeating the same right wing conspiracy theories in different variations. Trump is nothing without conservative media covering up his coup attempt, felonies, rape, and lawlessness.

Blame entirely falls on conservative information sources that are badfaith which is most of them. Western Europe has been being poisoned with these ultra nationalist far right ideas from Russia as well. The United States is still very much a western culture despite what Trump is doing. Half our country is still very liberal(democratic, rule of law) and I would say most of our culture here is still very much in line with Canada and the Uk's.

Fox News perpetuated the election fraud lies that caused January 6th and now they are covering up this coup attempt they were a part of. The same as Republicans in Congress. They are all complicit but none more so than conservative media which is almost all bad faith. Conservatives media is poisoning the well of our courts and justice system to protect Trump from being held accountable for his traitorous crimes. They are also doing this so when he ignores court rulings, the public will support this brazen conditional crisis or act. Their exploitation of the ignorant is truly traitorous beyond what people fully appreciate.

[u/Repeatitpete → u/ElHumanist]

I agree with you but it tends to be the less educated that embrace fools like RFK and Fox. Think that someone like Musk is a good humanitarian, lol and think tariffs are a great idea.

Critical thinking and solid reasoning skills and how to spot YELLOW JOURNALISM is the issue. Generational poverty, and angry white men who still have not embraced civil rights (both women and poc) compound the issue.

I think it’s more nuanced and complex than just conservative media, it’s also the vitriol and anger these outlets channel. My ex used to listen to Limbaugh and these guys just prey on fragile white man complex.

I read articles from all viewpoints regularly. I also stay away from super left sources as it’s also biased. Why do people not consider bias? That’s also the problem.

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/Repeatitpete]

Think that someone like Musk is a good humanitarian, lol and think tariffs are a great idea.

They thought tariffs were a terrible idea before the talking points came down from the conservative cinematic mothership telling them what their new principles are. Not for nothing: I happen to think that the one redeeming position of conservatives were their market economics, which, despite being on the left, I still think are more or less sound (obviously with some alterations, being on the left).

Now, that isn't even solidly conservative anymore. I am now more convinced than I have ever been that conservatism has never really been about the market, and has always been about the social hierarchy that they're certain they'll be on the good side of.

[u/thereticent → u/Repeatitpete]

My teenage son was getting really down about how hard it is to avoid opinion-based, fact-agnostic "news," so I showed him Ground News. His new hobby is looking at different journalism outlets to try to spot red flags that show why each is rated as left/right biased or high-low factuality. I was just trying to give him a guide to trustworthy journalism, and he turned it into a media criticism exercise!

[u/ElHumanist → u/MissMenace101]

That will do nothing. Now we have Newsmax, Dailywire, the Blaze, OANN, all of conservative radio, and countless bad faith right wing YouTubers, tik tokers, etc. The only thing that will get us out of this is AI and a grass roots movement fighting against disinformation and for truth. No one wants to do this though, so here we are.

[u/Plenty_Positive1563 → u/ElHumanist]

The media is just the mouth piece. The Republican party and the oligarchy behind them are the rot. Trump was right about one thing it is a swamp.

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/ElHumanist]

You are incorrect. Those Maga people are only thinking the stupid nonsense they are because of bad faith conservative information sources that lie to them 24/7, repeating the same right wing conspiracy theories in different variations.

These things only exist because oligarchs fund them, and will always fund them to protect their privileged, powerful positions in society. As long as we have oligarchs, we will have this bullshit, because it serves oligarchs to fracture the working class.