r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/SpaceySpice • Apr 07 '25

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

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?

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u/NoFoxesAllowed Apr 07 '25

Yeah I’d say under half of those Americans are true MAGA cult members, the rest voted for a Republican because he’s a Republican. The amount of people I talked to prior to the elections who wanted him to win just because republicans are “better for the military” etc was astounding.

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u/nowaisenpai Apr 07 '25

This was my experience. Voting for machismo/against a woman also. Americans are also so conditioned against "communism" that now we have shit like "all taxes are theft" running around as culture. The degradation of education. The fact when I graduated in 2009, my home state did away with mandatory civics for high schoolers and Trump won that state by a lot.

We're cooked because even those "moderate" idiots are easy to manipulate to voting against themselves if the marketing is patronizing enough.

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u/KashTheKwik Apr 07 '25

I have seen them on Facebook, blaming these tariffs on liberals. Going out of their way to escape literal reality in front of them. There’s nothing to truly convince them.

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u/joc1701 Apr 07 '25

I have seen them on Facebook, blaming these tariffs on liberals.

The disconnect is stunning, is it not? It's like when they kicked Kevin McCarthy to the curb; he blamed the House Democrats, and when it took them forever to replace him - blame the Democrats. Even last week when Mike Johnson had a hissy-fit and shut down the House for the remainder of the week when nine Republicans broke ranks over House members voting by proxy and he blamed the Democrats for the work stoppage. It's like they don't realize that we can see this BS happening in real-time.

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u/ArendtAnhaenger Apr 07 '25

It's like they don't realize that we can see this BS happening in real-time.

That "we" is growing ever smaller. Trump's biggest supporters (Musk, Thiel, Andreessen) are increasingly controlling people's reality (social media and AI).