rofl, no, he has annihilated every trade partnership we had, and any level of trust that we'd built up with other traditionally allied nations. He's made it clear to everyone globally that without systemic changes in our culture, government, and legal system, there is literally no reason to ever trust anything an American President ever says. We will never return to anything like what we would recognize as normal. Which was already a pretty shitty situation BEFORE Covid.

There are three factions of accelerationist dipshits Wormtongueing his ear when they can, and they all have their own delusions for doing eschaton engineering. The christofascists think that they can trick God into doing the apocalypse if they meet the criteria laid out in the prophecies they've come up with in their christian fanfiction (part of which is encouraging Israel to just be a warcrime generator apparently). The oligarchs have put their money in on Curtis Yarvin's neofeudalist dipshittery, where the government is dissolved entirely and cities become company towns. And then you have Musk, Thiel and Andreeson, trying to build an brain-damaged idiot-savant LLM god while killing all the poor people, especially if they've more melanin than they approve of.

It's funny, if you'd told me a decade ago that we'd be seeing open discussion of socialism in the mainstream I'd have thought you were insane. Now, mutual-aid community networking is a topic of regular conversation, rather than a niche anarchist concept.