# By the time Trump leaves office, how much of American power/status/influence can still be recovered and repaired?

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-the-time-trump-leaves-office-how-much-of-american-power-status-influence-can-still-be-recovered-and-repaired/1017764/81 "2025-05-26T04:56:41Z")

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> [@Tatterdemalion](#):
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> What matters is a willingness to abide by it.

Well, there was once the mythical checks, balances and conventions … til 45/47 & Project 2025 drove an 18 wheeler with the tacho in the red right through them.

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> Until we can actually get some agreement among the factions on what sort of country we want

From what I can see 1/3rd the country have the sort of country they want and 1/3rd are sanguine about that situation.

Would seem from this safe distance that there is a monumental “hearts and minds” campaign to be fought & won before constitutional reform is on the agenda.

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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-the-time-trump-leaves-office-how-much-of-american-power-status-influence-can-still-be-recovered-and-repaired/1017764/82 "2025-05-26T05:17:34Z")

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I think about 1/3 have the sort of country they want, another third also have the kind of country .they want. It’s just not the same country.

We will never recover from this as long as the major faction in the republican party refuses to deal with the world as it is.

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