[theold]

As the administrative state shrinks, the national borders are also becoming much more closed off. 

Tariffs are rising on imports, but it has also become more difficult for people to cross borders. 

Undocumented workers are being mercilessly driven out, and the US government is now moving to impose full or partial bans on US travel for citizens of around 40 countries.

Once considered a nation of immigrants, the US is now transforming into a society that is as anti-immigration as it ever has been.

Trump is angling to return America to its status as a protectionist economy and isolationist society that can be controlled by the white capitalist elite through exclusion. But doing so certainly doesn’t guarantee that the US will be transported back to its heyday. Tariffs will fuel inflation, while the slashing of aid to education and R&D will only hurt America’s ability to compete with China in the long run. Laying off civil servants, especially those who oversee safety, without any plans for what comes next, could make America an even more backward, more dangerous place than it already was.

But even if Trump fails and he and his ilk lose power, it’ll be too late to salvage a world order that orbited around the United States. South Korea should start preparing in earnest for a world without America.

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[Alice Alicia]