 It has. I mean, I don't think that U.S. democracy ever was quite the shiny city on a hill that Americans perceive it to be. I don't think the world ever had that view. But there's no question that after World War II and especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States for a period of decades was a model to many aspiring Democrats and many Democratic activists across the world. And this is not only disheartening to them,