What was merely hinted at in Trump's first term has now become explicit: Trump admires Putin (and Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping), and despises the leaders of the western democracies. He sends J.D. Vance to Europe to lecture them on their wokeness, while serving up Ukraine to Putin as punishment for Zelensky's failure to indict the Biden "crime family".
The western democracies have been infantilized by 80 years of deferring to the US militarily and politically. They need to put on their big boy pants, stop trying to normalize & appease Trump and act together to counter the US. Trump's America no longer embodies post Second World War democratic values.