Talking to or knowing someone from Eastern Europe may disabuse you of this notion.
What I mean is that it feels like, the US is starting down the road of becomes economically & socially isolated from the rest of the world in some regards. More or less like eastern Europe at the start of the cold war.
That is pretty tepid compared to what you said before.
Writing things like that like an American. I don't think my analogies are very clear and I should explain them.