US stopped leading democratic coalitions. Trump aligned American policy with authoritarian values instead. Democracy got cut from foreign policy and national identity. His admin axed funding for USAID and Radio Free Europe, institutions that spread democratic values globally. The pattern: attacked Canada, EU, Asian allies with insane tariffs. Screamed at Zelenskyy, threatened Greenland annexation, called NATO a paper tiger echoing Putin. Then negotiated Ukraine "peace" that's really just a profit play for US businesses to lift Russian sanctions. This isn't incompetence. It's ideological capitulation to autocracy.