I fear Turbonista is correct, but I hope Vax is right and makes us all look like drama queens.

America derives its wealth, power and influence on being a known entity on the world stage. The last year has been the most flagrant “let’s shake it up!” example of us, for some reason, taking a wrecking ball to that position. Like, why? We’ve been running the earth since the end of WWII. This also isn’t going to be an “oopsie, that didn’t work out, sorry everyone let’s go back to how it was a decade ago.” Situation. Bridges are burned. The world is going to be fundamentally different going forward.

Americans by and large have taken the last 80 years for granted. Elections don’t matter to us aside from being a sporting event for your side to win, even if they do the exact opposite of what they said they would.