[Penner]

This is a dark moment in the history of Western Civilisation. It was not a fascist regime which killed the weak and disabled, but the processes of a modern, functioning democracy.

Yes. And America has lost the moral authority to lecture other nations about their human rights abuses.

[RightWhale]

America has lost the moral authority to lecture

We ain't seen nuthin yet. America is not an emanation from the whole. Not being an individual it can't have the attribution of moral. Values in a historical context? Impossible.