"...coming apart..."? From where I sit, it really looks like a country on the brink of collapse now. The international polarity it engenders is as sad as it is destabilising. The irony is that the US opponents don't actually want to see America collapse, just even out the playing field and treat others fairly. With the social discord, poverty, racial disharmony and misogyny, I would have thought a more progressive polity would have been de rigueur. With Trump et al, obviously not.