That was the time that the US essentially made the post war world. Things like the Marshall Plan,

Berlin Airlift, NATO, German reunification, the peaceful breakup of the evil empire overseen by HW. With the election of Orange, our worst instincts have come to the fore. We have shown that we can be every bit as puny, selfish, petty, narrow minded, and entirely transactional as any of the dirtbags on the world stage. Our response to this COVID again is just a domestic manifestation of that selfish, we don’t give, we just take mentality.