Nah. The US decline started with Wilson’s plan to grab the Empire baton from England. This put us on British glidepath to the death of a thousand wars. Growth of Washington government control to control US society was the result.
Acceptance of George Washington’s admonition against foreign entanglements is our best chance for a reversal. But since both parties are dominated by trade and war interests, more control will continue to gravitate to Washington.
“Acceptance of George Washington’s admonition against foreign entanglements is our best chance for a reversal.”
Washington was not an isolationist and expected that the destiny of America was to become a world-wide trading nation and that free-trade was an American interest. In this same belief, Thomas Jefferson, and his successor used our national resources, diplomatic and military, in our national interest, against the pirate city-states of North Africa.
The “foreign entanglements” that Washington was cautioning against were the empire rivalries between competing European states; and to the extent we could, and until/except where, those rivalries adversely impacted our interests - as they did in WWI and WWII, most Presidents most often tried to follow Washington’s lead and help us avoid them.
Washington’s admonishment never assumed that world events would not place Americas’ real interests in alliance with others and against others, only that we needed to be sure that was the case and not simply take sides for the benefit of one or the other where even our shared interests were not manifest.
In truth, our diplomatic affairs is the area where our leaders have demonstrated a greater contrast with Washington’s admonishment than they have committed with our military affairs. But, since the founding of the Republic it is mostly only on the canard of our military affairs that Washington’s admonishment has been brought out to oppose a policy and usually, in my view, in ignorance of his intent.