Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[G.Irish]

Also, you can say that what the president says doesn't matter much, but I can assure you that you are wrong. The rest of the world absolutely looks at what America says and does and it in turn influences their actions. Many other nations trust the United States to do what's right most of the time, which is what holds our military alliances together. It's why other nations share intelligence with us, it's why other nations depend on our economic systems, it's why other nations model their justice systems after ours, it's why other nations cooperate with us in law enforcement, it's why other nations agree to treaties with us.

What Trump is doing is eroding the world's trust in America to be moral and just. People may think that this trust is a worthless thing, but they don't know what a world without trust looks like. The United States is less safe if we know less about our adversaries because we're not trusted with intel. Our economy is weaker if we get cut out of free trade agreements. We are less safe if we can't depend on our law enforcement partners to help us with transnational crime.

And now with this worldwide surge in right-wing nationalism, having the president of the United States openly spouting racist and white nationalist rhetoric absolutely makes the world a worse place.