IMHO as an 80-year old American former military in VN for a couple of years and worked for the government another 36 years, i feel that since VN days, the decline of the US on all sides began and has picked up speed as more and more people sought ways to enrich themselves without actually earning it. The current administration is packed with nothing but folks of this nature IMHO. I watch the Congressional hearings questioning senior administrative folks who have no real idea of what their agency is supposed to be doing nor how to continue firing people without just cause - or as I keep hearing, folks are asked who won the 2020 election and if one says Biden then "you need to look for another job". Folks are advisors to senior folks like the Secretary of WAR he is called today, his closest advisor, a former lawyer, named as a naval officer (though without serving) as all those officers are supposedly cleared already but being named not so and sits on a desk right at the SecWar's shoulder, goes to all the meetings and such a clearance requires no contacts with foreign folks, and takes 6-12 months to finish but which has never begun in this instant, is a former lawyer against the military in a well known case, has foreign clients and yet sits in the SCIF for classified briefings. The congressional hearing on this was covered in a YOUTUBE video today and the SecWAR didn't have any ideas about the guy at all except saying he was a "good guy"! Nothing but scary things like this on a daily basis. Just look at the Epstein Files coverup - more than just this administration too and wonder if we will ever see the end of those as more and more rich and powerful push Trump to even more to block it. Anyway if one wonders just how much it is spreading, check out the Congressional hearings/findings. Even so, the president continues ignoring the US Constitution and the courts keep letting him slide along but if he voters are awake in November and Trump can't stop the elections in all the states, his days will be numbered and many of those within his administration too will be impeached IMHO.