#1 and #2 are correct, #3 is not.
Donald Trump is objectively the worst US president in 100 years, yes that includes Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. However, he is a symptom, not a cause. He is the manifestation of a streak of retardation that has run through this country's population since long before its inception.
We are wannabe rugged individualists in a world dominated by far more effective societies run by collectivist cultures. This shows most recently in our embarrassing handling of the coronavirus pandemic where vast swathes of the country couldn't be counted on for social responsibility and civic duty as simple as wearing a fucking mask around other people.
It also shows in how profoundly bad we are, and always have been, at war. Our war machine was fought to a stalemate by a token force of too-young and too-old German garrison units speckled with a few under-equipped panzer, SS, and wehrmacht divisions on WW2's Western front while the Soviets won the war.
Defeated in Korea
Defeated in Vietnam
Defeated in Afghanistan
Barely won the Civil War in spite of massive asymmetry in manpower and industrial output. Look how long it took the Union to wade through all the idiots high up in the military (Scott, McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, before arriving at a mediocre general in Grant.)
Barely survived the war of 1812 in spite of being an obscure theater of a massive coalition war.
Barely survived the revolutionary war in spite of being an obscure theater of a massive coalition war.
If the United States as it currently stands ever actually gets into a shooting war with a competent enemy it will be so thoroughly disastrous and traumatic to the national psyche that it will be remembered as our Battle of Cannae. For some clues on this, look up how our Navy performs in war-games, look at how each great power has handled the development of next-gen JSF's, or talk to any honest and intelligent person who has been an officer in our military. There are few advantages to our high degree of individualism and martial prowess is not one of them.
Running a prosperous and equitable modern nation-state requires a higher degree of civic responsibility and cultural homogeneity than the USA possesses, as evidenced by the superior outcomes obtained by pretty much all our developed peers, even fascist China.
This country is a failed experiment that has only passably worked for the short periods of its lifespan where individualists (the GOP, essentially) were totally disenfranchised. Eisenhower doesn't count, as he was a collectivist.
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