America gives up on the Pax Americana of the last 70 years and the international institutions it championed to implement the globalised world.
The world is going to be a much more dangerous place.
I mean, never mind our domestic concerns--race, gender, anti-intellectualism, apathy--that's our own mess. We'll deal with that.
But for you, out in the wild? The nations that rely on the international order based on collective security? Democratic peace theory?
"I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies."