The Powell House Press Opinion

How Trump With The Help Of Johnson’s Congress is Damaging America At Home and Across The Globe.

The most damaging photograph of this political era captures three leaders sharing genuine warmth at a diplomatic summit in Tianjin: Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Narendra Modi, representing nearly half the world's population, displaying camaraderie that included hand-holding between Modi and Putin. In that single frame lies the crystallization of America's most profound strategic catastrophe—a nation so consumed by protecting one man's legal interests and enabling his authoritarian impulses that it has surrendered global leadership while deploying military forces against its own cities.

While these leaders orchestrated what analysts describe as the largest diplomatic gathering in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's 24-year history, bringing together 27 nations representing nearly half of global GDP, America's political apparatus remained fixated on the grotesque spectacle of congressional Republicans serving as a protection racket for Donald Trump. Speaker Mike Johnson epitomizes…