Yes, though Rome didn’t collapse in a day. This has been developing for decades.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

These stupid fucking people blasted the foundation of our economic empire to smithereens on a fucking gamble trump could stave off dedollarization and now we're going to have another fucking recession and the debt will finally be the fucking problem republicans want it to be.

It's really, really hard to just not be filled with blind rage for the idiots that asked for this.

It’s all built on trust and stability which is hard to earn but oh so easy to throw away.