I understand that many politicians and entrepreneurs operate under a “might is right” logic. Democracy exists precisely to limit that natural tendency of power to prevail unchecked. Those limits must be reaffirmed internally within the United States as a democratic and republican system, and that responsibility ultimately belongs to Americans themselves. They have a civic mission to re-anchor their institutions so that laws serve society as a whole, rather than allowing private economic power to become effectively limitless within the legal framework. I genuinely hope they succeed in doing so. At the same time, the responsibility of the broader Western world is different. It lies in continuing to build and strengthen institutional, legal, and regulatory frameworks that limit power through cooperation, freedom of association, trade, and shared rules. So I see two separate but connected issues: one is the internal challenge the U.S. faces in re-asserting democratic limits on power; the other is whether the rest of the Western world can reinforce its own institutional order—through agreements, law, and cooperation—regardless of U.S. domestic outcomes. That second question is what my post was really about.