AMERICA is a country of undoubted vast strengths — technological, economic and cultural — yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens and the world. Donald Trump's victory is easy to understand. It was a vote against the status quo. Whether Trump will fix — or even attempt to fix — what really ails America remains to be seen.
The rejection of the status quo by the American electorate is overwhelming. An NBC national news poll in September 2024 found that 65 percent of Americans said the country was on the wrong track, while only 25 percent said that it was on the right track. In March 2024, according to Gallup, only 33 percent of Americans approved of Joe Biden's handling of foreign affairs.
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