How about they make post-Trump America happen first?

Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America

Not going to read the article, but the only way to reassure Europe is with results. Get Trump out of office. Clean up the mess. That means prosecuting EVERYONE involved. Prosecute the people in the Epstein files. Prosecute every ICE member. Prosecute the Republicans that enabled this shit. Reverse what can still be reversed, or at least make plans to. And change your fucking constitution to actually have teeth and effective division of power.

Don't just take back control and then act like it's back to business as usual with all the changes kept in effect, no one punished, and MAGA allowed to organize once more.

Even if Trump is gone in three years, the MAGA people are still there and so is Vance, Thiel, Musk, and others. That doesn’t sound very reassuring to me.

IF the US survives Trump (we'll see if he allows the midterms to happen) we still cannot allow another chance to be betrayed by a close ally. The MAGA cult will not evaporate even with a democrat president. Europe needs to focus on two main issues, energy and tech independence. At the same time we should try to eradicate the American military presence in Europe and bolster our own armies. An United Europe is impenatrable, both economically and militarily.

When the glass is broken and trust is gone, it takes a lot if time, if any to heal. Europe should just go for strategic autonomy, in energy, defence, tech, anywhere. Then deal with whomever as equal and not as a subservient. I'm sure Democrats would not object that kind of relationship

So people joke about Obama getting the Nobel prize but it felt like it was the rest of the world rewarding the US for choosing sanity after 8 years of Bush.

There was a hope for things to get back to “normal”. Before then I remember Americans often wore Canadian flags cause the hatred was so high. I think people forget how badly the US fucked up then. (And this was the general feeling—not just the left who are well aware of the decades of problematic behaviour)

We’ve welcomed the US back once. Never again.

You keep fucking up the entire world because of your egos and your hate.

No “we’ve changed” or “we will change” rhetoric will work again until those who have caused this face consequences.

Fix yourselves before appealing for forgiveness.

Sorry yankees: Trump is a symptom, not a cause.

We’ll see you over in the Former Empire corner, yeah?

or Donors/billionaires are freaked out right now and want to still do business in EU, and trotting out patsies in the DNC to say what they want to hear.

The US in its current form will (hopefully) not regain the trust it lost. They have shown that their checks and balances don't work, the separation of powers was meaningless, they didn't learn from history, and they'll just keep going with fptp voting, gerrymandering, and general drift into fascism if Europe just gives them a pass.

You want back in? Make yourself a proper democracy. There's a first time for everything. No electoral college, no voter suppression. Sounds impossible? ... Yeah.

Trump is the result of decades of continuity in U.S. foreign and domestic policy. He’s not an aberration. “Good cop, bad cop”, nobody’s buying it anymore.

Like a toxic ex going "but I've changed"...

I'm fully convinced that the United States have nothing more than a controlled opposition at this point. It's honestly hard to imagine a world in which an authoritarian government willingly gives up power through elections without any major upheaval. I'd personally want to see a Romanian scenario, but I fear the land of the free and home of the brave doesn't have it in itself to get rid of a dictatorship.

Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America

This whole thing is so awfully awkward and unreal. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but;

• If Democrats are trying to reassure Europe, that's a very bad sign
• If they do that, it's becasue they feel, need or want to use Europe to get some leverage against Trump
• Somehow they perceive that Europe can or should save US from itself
• They are asking Europe because there's no-one else.

If anything, its actually a sign of how dire the situation is, because they fear there might not be a democracy left Post-Trump.

If there is anything I can read into this, it's best if we all be prepared for the worst.

Especially, condidering UK send an aircraft carrier to Greenland in context of the Munich Sec Conference and that a noteworthy letter was send to UK & German newspapers, quote:

" (..), the complexity of threats demands a whole-of-society approach and an honest, continent-wide conversation with the public that defence cannot be the preserve of uniformed personnel alone. It is a task for each and every one of us."

The bad news: Yeah no, because there's no political will in America to actually address the root cause that lead to this.

The "good" news: Yeah no, because MAGA isn't going anywhere, so we don't need to test this theory.

so dems have a message for europe. where is the message for us citizens? who’s the priority - citizens or businesses worried about their wallets as europe turns away from us businesses (TECH)? i’m curious how they think they will repair our country and democracy.

We will have proof when we have eaten the pudding surrounding it.

Trump may be gone but he's pulled back the curtain and exposed the US for who they are. Too many in the US fully support him. Even many Democrats support at least some of what he does.

It's just a little slimy, it's still good!

-Homer chasing after the runaway roast hog.

The deer's famous last words, out of the lion's mouth: "This is not as bad as it looks!"

lol