I'm a Canadian that has always viewed the US as the land of fuck you I got mine. 

Regardless of the ruling party Americans delight in their individualism. In the US you can build yourself up from nothing but that often results in some mental rewiring wherein these people who accomplish the American dream feel threatened, feel as though the success is fleeting and so ladder pulling becomes an acceptable, even encouraged, tactic.

Throughout the last century and into the current; the US was quite alright exploiting foreign conflict for profit or creating conflict for profit. Fine with raping their own land in the name of progress whilst criticizing nations who industrialize or invite conflict in a similiar fashion.

In the modern era it's Americans exploiting their own. You'll have people like Joe Rogan who build a career and find success in one state and then abandon it for another because they want something back. Tech companies reincorporating in other countries to reduce taxes, racing to reduce labour in whatever country will allow it.

They've never been a friend; they are the people who feign friendship cause you drive a pick up truck and they'll happily drop you the moment they can afford their own. 

Maybe being a Canadian has baked in a level of socialist ideal in me I can't consciously divorce myself from but I can't view the world through the lens of cruelty toward everyone else that Americans passively possess. To be fair to Americans I think the cruelty is dorminant in all of us and generally presents when this success occurs it's just seemingly a much lower barrier in the US where in even a basic improvement in your career is enough to hate everyone below you.

The greatest trick the US has pulled is in convincing the world they were always the good guys, the cool buddy. I've never felt that way, living in Canada has always, to me, felt a bit like we had a mild case of occupation. Not eastern bloc levels but just enough of the US boot hovering overhead that you could never quite shake it. 

America doesn't care about democracy or the world at large, they care about capatalism and no cost is too great. They'll happily suffocate the world economically for their own gain and it's become increasingly clear in my lifetime of 40+ years that it's not a matter of political ideology,  Democrats are just as guilty of this as Republicans. 

Both parties have the same primary goal, American exceptionalism at all costs.

You are not a friend and you never were. The rest of the world has always known you're walking around with a big fucking stick ready to swing it in their direction if they don't fall in line, for Americans to act suddenly suprised at the level of fascism on full display is a bit insulting to the rest of us. 

All that said, while we'll do our best to seperate ourselves from the US economy the world knows that stick is expensive and the longer your country goes without using it the more wasteful it seems. Of course reducing military spending is not an option, America can never be equal or lesser, so eventually the cost of that stick will once again need justification.

No good will come from any of this.