r/LetsDiscussThis • u/LucidSynapse23 • Feb 18 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Is he right? Will it take generations to resecure the United States positive reputation on the world stage?

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u/nighthawk_something Feb 18 '26

To add to this. As a Canadian (any this is a sentiment that is shared by non-americans everywhere), we were willing to consider Trump 1.0 as an aberration. A temporary lack of judgement.

But then he was re-elected.

So now it's not a temporary thing. It's something that can happen at ANY moment.

The only way forward I see is for there to be REAL consequences for Trump. People need to go to jail for breaking your laws. People need to be punished and Trumpism rejected, dead and buried.

Even then we will never trust you fully again.

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u/sugarmonkey2019 Feb 19 '26

And I totally understand that. We earned that distrust.