it's going to take at least 15-20 years of rigorous reform and cutting of red-tape before this country can ever hope to regain the status we had on the world stage pre-9/11. even if trump accomplishes half of his campaign promises (which itself is unlikely) there's still the decades of government rot and corruption that is adamantly protected by the people who helped to infect and profit from it. these people are ruthless criminals and i doubt trump has the guts to actually go after the perpetrators of this greed-driven treason. for one, a lot of them know trump personally and have worked with him in the past, and everyone knows that for as much as trump likes to antagonize, he'll always make compromises. for two, if he tried, you would be watching footage from a successful assassination rather than a failed attempt, a la jfk.
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