I agree, but believe jacquesm is pointing to a larger problem: even with diligent and committed efforts by a different administration or a series of them, the rest of the world is not going to trust the US any more for a very long time. Partly thanks to social media, it's obvious that the political realignment we're seeing is not just the work of a few political strategists and manipulators, but that about a third of the US is consumed by a revanchist mindset with whom accommodation is impossible.

> "don’t fight a fraction as hard to help people as conservatives do to [f] people over"

I attribute this more to the relative difficulty to destroy compared with the effort required to create.

It's easier to burn bridges than build them.

It's easier to forfeit external relations saboteurially than to be a decent f person and listen.

They just forfeited 66 very big deals. When they run away like that, they forfeit.