I don’t think that “Sold us down a river” is not an appropriate summary of 100 yers of American executive governance.

Further, I don’t think there is any evidence that they are sincerely “trying.”

Are they? None of the recent events point to any plan. It's pure and simple corruption. If by trying you mean trying anything without a clue, I can agree with that.

What do you think about the fact you can directly bribe the president through his memecoin or by buying dinners with him? That's "at least trying"?

Sometimes change for the sake of change gets you a circus on fire.

What exactly is the evidence of this? Debt/deficit? Seems like that's been going up and down forever. Because by every other metric the US economy was humming along until we decided to take a wrecking ball to it, to prevent future wreckage I guess?

Trying to do what exactly?