“That could have been said anytime since 1918.”
Your self serving one dimensional supposition fails to account for everything that’s happened over the last 105 years.
You are living out your fantasy life in an old black and white movie, detached from reality that is about to smack you in the face.
History rhymes!
It does - the same or similar causes create the same or similar effects over and over.
But in this case, its really just the same old, same old.
Americans have been getting hit by anti-Americanism continuously since there was a United States. At the same time the US exerted an irresistable draw to, sometimes, the same people.
Its an odd situation, but there we go. People are complicated, and not a lot bother to try to understand their own minds.