Originally Posted by
Guisslapp
He has eroded American soft power while increasing the relative power of countries that wish to unseat us and do not share American interests - China and Russia.
He is flaming and giving renewed life to harmful ideologies - racism, nationalism, and xenophobia.
He is undermining public trust in institutional principles of America - the rule of law, ethics and anticorruption, freedom of the press, truth, compassion.
America is far worse since he has taken over. But it can get worse yet. He is incompetent and incapable of leading and this will be highly magnified the first time he enounters an external crisis.