As an American this is very close to my take. This leadership is weak, they’ve divided the country in a way in which it will likely never recover from. Global opinions of the US are in the dumpster and it would take decades of goodwill to even begin to shift opinions that the USA is actually “good” again.

The sad reality is this country will never recover to being what it was. I honestly feel like we’d be better off just saying “fuck off, do your own thing then” to the southern portion of the states, but then you’d likely have a nuclear armed failed state within a couple of decades and the evangelicals among them would probably welcome a nuclear Holocaust because they believe they’ll be raptured away.