Doormat?
What is the source of your woeful inferiority complex, and how is POTUS going to help what clearly Darwinism left out?
I never felt like a doormat. I was able to become a multimillionaire before age 30, and then I got really wealthy when I moved into private industry. I don't think the average Thai was holding me back nor stepping on me, nor did the average Thai have anywhere near the opportunities I had.
I do know my country greatly benefited from having 30% of its deficit funded by willing foreign UST buyers. I suspect that is going to slow, maybe even stop. With such a capricious clown as POTUS, I doubt many non-US companies will bother to spend the next few years designing and building US factories in a hope of getting behind the tariffs, because few would think POTUS wouldn't block them and even domestically tariff them if the US economy slowed, saying something like, "They're not really American". As soon as arriving ships and planes unload and the goods enter the US market, the average American is going to face price inflation on a scale never seen before. To rub salt in the wounds, Americans are also going to take big hits to their 401Ks, thanks to the "really stable genius".
There used to be a lot of give and take in the world. Despite tariffs in other markets, the US economy did pretty well and the people of the US were able to live well beyond their means. The world rushed to the US' defense after 9-11, and the US was the first major nation---under the leadership of the Biden Administration---to emerge from Covid, growing from 2021-2025 at 3 times the rate of the average G7. It seems all those foreign tariffs neither got in the way of growth nor made the US a doormat.
George Santayana must have known who Mr. Smoot and Mr. Hawley were, but clearly POTUS knows none of the three.