I am a Boomer whose life started with the start of the American "empire" and world wide Pax Americana. And despite a checkered history over these 82 years I lived in what I could think of as America the Good. And now that is gone. (But I trust America the Good will rise up again)
America the Evil has a long history - slaughter of the Native American nations, slavery, Jim Crow South, McCarthyism attacks on liberals. And there were mistakes, which include our wars in Viet Nam and Iraq.
But America has entered a new level of evil - Trump, MAGA, Oligarch cruelty, white Christian nationalist attempt to create an American theocracy.
Without Trump, the others would be there but have much less power.
Trump's entire reason for living, other than benefit himself and his ego, seems to be to destroy all that he hates, and he hates a lot. He has destroyed our alliances, withdrawn from NATO, is attacking the rule of law, has destroyed Congress's independence, has destroyed the Republican Party, is trying to destroy the judiciary, is destroying America's elite and scientific universities which is destroying America's excellence in science, is destroying vaccine research and production which is destroying America's leadership in medical research and expertise. I am sure I am leaving out lots, but this is enough for now.
But the most horrendous, the most unfathomable, the most depraved that is coming to light is the filth being revealed in the Epstein Files. And, worse yet, Trump's overt actions and demands that the filth be covered up by his slaves running the Department of Justice and FBI. Why? Because of his obvious guilt that will be revealed in these nauseating files.
But the rest of the world is not going to be stopped by Trump's administration. The rest of the world is already arresting some of the depraved that are so far revealed in the files.
In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s the world was confronted with and forced to see the unimaginable cruelties and depravities of the Nazis leading up to and including WWII, including the torture and extermination camps of Jews and others.
Now, America is being seen in much the same light as the horrors of pedophilia, torture, and perhaps murder are showing up in the Epstein files. Indeed, how many in Trump's administration are also in the Epstein files? The Epstein class was world-wide, but what is being shown is American centered. And it is sickening. I know many Americans are deliberately avoiding seeing the details, but the details are there, and more will come, and they will be more and more shocking and sickening. It takes courage to look, but as citizens we must look, we must see, we must react.
America needs to do a lot of work to stop being seen as America the Evil. I expect that America will be more and more nauseated by what we see and at least some of the MAGA cult will finally have accept who Trump really is and turn on him - like a pack of hyenas.