While I understand the desire to claim that bifurcation has reached the point where the "America is not really a single “nation state” anymore" it is, in fact, still a nation state, in the same way that a family that fights a lot is still a family. Only this family, uh, rules the world. And unfortunately it also rules the world while pretending it doesn't rule the world. Acknowledging that you rule the world would be a good first step towards doing a better job at ruling it, but this acknowledgement is impossible within the given parameters of discourse, so a new discourse will likely emerge?