Joe Biden says he's going to get in the phone to other heads of state and tell them we're back.
Could America please be back having learned the right lesson?
Enough of the greatest and the beacon and the pulpit and manifest destiny. Be loyal, as well as requiring it. Be a friend, not just a recipient of friendship. Do things because they are right, not merely because it is self-interest wrapped up as virtue.
Trump represents a part of the unrestrained American character. Don't reintroduce it in a slightly more restrained form. Purge Trumplike behaviours altogether.
How I look forward to being the one to praise an excessively humble America, rather than tamping down the self-congratulation.
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