I used to revere the great experiment that is the United States. After Trump, I’m not so sure

The Guardian ^ | Fri 3 Jul 2026 12.10 EDT | Jonathan Freedland

[E. Pluribus Unum]

On paper, the US constitution is a thing of beauty. But the would-be emperor in Washington has revealed its great weakness

America’s big birthday has come at a bad time. On Saturday it will be a divided nation that marks 250 years since 13 North American colonies declared their independence from the Great Britain of George III. Many will be anxious that the republic they established that day is fragile – not least because of the would-be emperor in the White House.

Some will console themselves that hope and angst have always been intertwined in the American story. From the very start, confidence in a bright, exceptional US future was combined with foreboding and doubt. At the close of the 1787 constitutional convention, a woman approached one of the founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, to ask if the delegates had established a monarchy or a republic. Franklin’s answer: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Some of that unease was the result, one hopes, of a quiet understanding that the new nation had arrived with a built-in defect, in the form of a terrible contradiction. The declaration proclaimed that “all men are created equal”, which excluded women and could not be squared with the fact that this new entity was founded on slavery. That text’s principal author, Thomas Jefferson, was himself a slave owner, and the knowledge of his hypocrisy haunted him. “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever,” he wrote.

But that fear for the future also owed something to the sheer scale of the founders’ ambition. As Tom Holland, historian of the ancient world, puts it, the US was “founded as a simulacrum of the early...

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

Nothing is more amusing than a resident of Londonistan, the Moslem grooming gang capital of the world where, if you get stabbed by a Moslem YOU get handcuffed to bleed to death in the street, projecting imaginary suppression onto the President of the United.

[mfish13]

It’s the Guardian, Jim.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

We never “revered” the Drive-By Media, and my birds REJECT having The Guardian on the bottom of the bird cage.

[bk1000]

Everyone from over there that has come here for the World Cup has gone home with a much different picture of the USA than their lying communist media paints.

[oldtech]

Every other person seems to be getting upset about how Donald Trump is running the USA...what did they worry about when the 2 dummies before him were REALLY making a mess of things? I have never understood this.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

You posted this twice

[Gunslingr3]

Nothing is more amusing than a resident of Londonistan, the Moslem grooming gang capital of the world where, if you get stabbed by a Moslem YOU get handcuffed to bleed to death in the street, projecting imaginary suppression onto the President of the United.

Clarification: Nowak was stabbed by a Sikh carrying his ceremonial dagger that no white Brit is allowed to walk the streets with.

Easier and more accurate to just call them all 'wogs'.

[Nateman]

...It’s the Guardian, Jim...

I didn't even read it. I don't need to eat a steaming pile of dog poop to know not to do that.

[mass55th]

Worry about your own $hit-hole country Johhny Boy.

[Williams]

But he wasn’t bothered by the nightmare Biden.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The first time i accidentally omitted the link. SOP is for the admin to delete the post with the omitted link. I asked for it to be removed.

[Leaning Right]

> It’s the Guardian, Jim. <

Right. Since 1953 they’ve been hoping for an advancement in DNA technology that would bring Stalin back to life. (But not Lenin. He was too moderate.)

[proust]

“revere” never fed a hungry child. We’re giving free breakfast, lunch and dinners at schools nationwide.

[SmokingJoe]

More nonsense from The Guardian as usual?
Yup.

[Texas Eagle]

You posted this twice

Search still works.

[mfish13]

I wonder what they think of Trotsky? A subversive?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don't need to eat a steaming pile of dog poop to know not to do that.

I like to read them in the same spirit as when I take photos of [insert liberal of your choice here] to the rifle range for target practice.

[oldtech]

What do those who have come here from their own country think of our president in general? We already know what a great deal of our own home-grown communistic Democrats think, but I mean those from various other countries regardless of partisanship.

[Tench_Coxe]

"what did they worry about when the 2 dummies before him were REALLY making a mess of things? I have never understood this."

I call it convenient amnesia, or willful omission of inconvenient truths.
Primarily a feature of left wing thinking, but also by those on the 'right' with an axe to grind (think of the Bushie/Rove, Chamber of Commerce, Warpig, or Mitch McConnell factions of the Republican party re: Trump).

[econjack]

Written by a British author who still seems PO’ed that we won our independence from England and does not have a clue how things work over here.