 For those of us living in the U.S. for the past several years, we've had a front row seat of the news, but you're saying that people outside of the U.S. have also been tracking this, and American-style democracy has been losing credibility and influence for years. 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,