Litany of thumpers
Murphy ‘20 [Chris; June 12; United States Senator for Connecticut and member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Foreign Affairs, “A New Civil Rights Movement Is a Foreign Policy Win,” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-06-12/new-civil-rights-movement-foreign-policy-win; RP]
These days, of course, the world didn’t really need any new reasons to feel queasy about the United States. President Trump’s attacks on traditional allies, disinterest in human rights and democracy promotion, and generally boorish behavior have already put the country’s global reputation on a path of steady decline. Last year, the Pew Research Center reported that in many parts of the globe, approval of the United States was at an all-time low. The Trump administration’s bungled response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left over 110,000 Americans dead, surely did not reverse this trend.