 You cease to be a nation. Your leaders don't feel an obligation to deliver results or represent the people. A colony is just a place where you do commerce. No one has any shared bonds. You still buy stuff and trade stuff. But there's a fundamental distinction between a country and a colony. And that's the Republican Party has now decolonized the country, if you will. And it's like, no, we're actually a nation. And a nation is constituted of people. And the people need to be prioritized above abstractions or foreign countries.