For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.

The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.

Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.

But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.

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    19 hours ago

    The problem is: the party has changed, but has politics actually changed, too?

    We know the Democrats to be toothless enough to think about rolling out the carpet for Trump instead of actually dealing with him.

    So we’ll just wait in how far they reign in their chief degenerate. If they stop his unnecessary wars, put limits to AI, scrap tariffs, and some other things out of Trumps pot of stupid ideas, we are open to talk again.

    Just standing and watching when Trump sells Ukraine and us to his favorite dictator Putin will not make them friends here.