Garrett M. Graff
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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since he came to office a year ago, Donald Trump has set about consciously dismantling what to me are the six core sources of national strength and influence for the United States on the world stage.
The first is easy access of immigrants to the United States and the pull of foreign students to our world-class schools and universities.
And, of course, it's very related to that first pillar, how we have these world-class schools and why they attract the very best talent from all over the world.
The whole story of growth of the economy in the last 50 years has been the story of broad trade access to U.S.
markets and reciprocally a flow of U.S.
products to the rest of the world, lowering trade barriers and making the global economy ever more frictionless.
The rule of law in the United States had been so firmly established, the idea of a fascist government secret police, that a president would be using the Justice Department to punish political enemies, that business leaders would actually have to think about their standing with the president personally to decide whether they could move forward with a corporate merger, or...
bribe the president personally in order to be able to continue doing business.
This is something that until even just a year ago seemed unthinkable to even mention.
that has been really the bedrock of US foreign policy going back to the end of World War II.
We emerged from that war in this moment.
We're like, we don't want a world war to ever happen again.
And we are going to
build the network of global institutions to help ensure that problems going forward are solved with diplomacy and not military might.
And we stood up these institutions like NATO, like the United Nations, like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to try to make this world safer, more stable, and more secure.
Yes, and all five of these pillars come together to firm up another equally critical pillar, a politically independent and fiscally prudent monetary policy that
that established the US dollar as the world's safest reserve currency, made US treasury bonds the savings bank for the entire world, and made US banking networks and capital markets the place to be for any company looking for access to investors.
You look at all six of these things, and Donald Trump has done irreparable damage to all six of these.
Countries have made mistakes.
Empires rise and fall as technology changes, as geopolitics change.
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