This is still very optimistic. The only reason this would work is that America's negotiating partners want to believe the change is real. The American people will remain roughly the same electorate that elected Trump (for a second term, after he incited an insurrection), so the danger will remain.

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make3 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The hope would be that Trump would be seen as a one-in-a-kind terrible mix of both hyper-charismatic and negative, like Adolf Hitler

	▲	sanderjd 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Very unlikely. He won twice and fully owns one of our two parties. Any hope for "he was an aberration" died last November.
	▲	andrewflnr 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As long as we're Godwin-ing this conversation, Germany has publicly repented for the whole Hitler thing. Public, unified repudiation of Trump would be minimum bar for America to be taken seriously again. I don't see this happening in my lifetime.