Cato wrote:

What has happened to America? What does this mean for those people
around the world that are friends of Freedom and look to the U.S. to
help build a Free world?

The Founding Fathers of the United States must be rolling in their
graves to see what the country they created has come to be.

They would no-doubt see the USA at its finest. This country
experimented with Voodoo Reaganomics for 25 years, gave it a fair shot,
and decided that it doesn't work and that it's time to try something else.