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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“How did the US lose its sheen? …the first blow was the Iraq War… Revelations of civilian casualties and torture at CIA black sites further undermined America’s reputation…Then came the erosion of US economic legitimacy with the 2008 financial crisis… The coup de grâce was the crisis in America’s political and moral legitimacy brought about by the presidency of Donald Trump.”
— Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
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