The United States is going to need massive reforms to regain the trust of its allies and trade partners. What structural and electoral reforms will we need in your opinion?
How can we prevent an extremist movement like MAGA or worse from gaining control of over half of congress and the presidency in the future?
Honestly I would say the structural rot has existed since the country’s foundation and MAGA is just the final mask off apex of oligarchy, if that makes sense? Founded by slaveowners, perverse incentives to be permanently at war, government system where corporate bribery is not only legal but the norm, entirely coopted “democracy”, etc.
You can’t really have a healthy government in a world with unchecked exploitation. Even under the most progressive Dem presidents the US was still doing horrible shit to the rest of the world to advance capitalist aims. I mean just look at literally every Latin American country having suspiciously coordinated anti leftist genocides in the late 1900s. The “freedoms” the indepence war was fought for were only for rich whites, the declaration of human rights was signed while under Jim Crow, the fact police have consistently gone unpunished for murdering POC… I could go on but you get the picture. Fixing all of that would imply uprooting the 200+ years of rot the country was built for, and I’m not sure what it’ll take. Small reforms are kind of doomed if the underlying systems of power aren’t meaningfully challenged. Despite being the richest country in the world we don’t have universal healthcare, and when it almost happened it was shot down by a blatant shill and nothing happened, so.
The author Doug Valentine has a lot of work on tracing the structural rot at the heart of the country if you’d like context. He totally predicted the 2020s. I’ve heard the book “The People’s History of the United States” is good too.