It took decades for Germany to regain its international standing after World War II.
It will take decades to rehabilitate the United States.
The world is boycotting US goods, and many countries will never buy anything from the US again.
And it's not just Trump. It's every Republican who failed to call him out.
It's the ICE agents who killed immigrants they labeled "illegal", and innocent American citizens who did nothing but stand up to protest authoritarian rule.
It's the contractors who built and operated concentration camps.
It's a nation that stayed quiet as Trump sided with the despots of Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and Japan.
It's watching service members come home in flag-draped coffins from an illegal war as their commander-in-chief called the whole thing "small potatoes".
It's not just Trump.
We have a lot to atone for, which is going to take a lot of work, and a lot of time.
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