At this point, the federal government is divesting itself of its responsibilities to the states. The Trump regime is actively seeking to not provide services and support to those parts of the nation that didn’t vote for him, but in doing so is actually hitting red states (and red counties in blue states) harder than he is the blue ones.
A reversion to the historical mean. Prior to the post-Depression 20th century, the US Federal government has historically been weak and disconnected from state operations.
To claim we’re not a state because Trump has gone 10% more Calvin Coolidge with it, you have to ignore the century and a half when Coolidge was the norm.
So, the US is behaving like a failing state. That’s not a strict boolean. The decline and fall of a nation a long, slow, non-linear process. We don’t know if it’ll devolve into civil war or toward the fracturing of the US into separate allied clusters of states. It’s up to the individual historian (say a century from now) to decide exactly at what point the US actually failed. Rome, for instance, fell across centuries.
I mean, we’re not even out of the Roman Republican Era, as a point of comparison. I don’t think it’s fair to say Rome’s fall began with Caeser given that it continued to expand and advance for the next 400 years.
Folks writing the eulogy for the US when we’re just now really getting our hooks into Latin America and the Pacific Rim seem to have missed some historical milestones.
I’m pretty sure the US had its hooks into the rest of the Americas. It engaged in a lot of interventionism in the name of containment during the twentieth century. The stereotype of the banana republic comes from US political capture of tropical states in the name of large corporate fruit growers.
A reversion to the historical mean. Prior to the post-Depression 20th century, the US Federal government has historically been weak and disconnected from state operations.
To claim we’re not a state because Trump has gone 10% more Calvin Coolidge with it, you have to ignore the century and a half when Coolidge was the norm.
I mean, we’re not even out of the Roman Republican Era, as a point of comparison. I don’t think it’s fair to say Rome’s fall began with Caeser given that it continued to expand and advance for the next 400 years.
Folks writing the eulogy for the US when we’re just now really getting our hooks into Latin America and the Pacific Rim seem to have missed some historical milestones.
I’m pretty sure the US had its hooks into the rest of the Americas. It engaged in a lot of interventionism in the name of containment during the twentieth century. The stereotype of the banana republic comes from US political capture of tropical states in the name of large corporate fruit growers.