If Charlie Kirk had been a first grader it would still be soon to politicize the issues around how to prevent further violence. But he wasn't, so let's declare war on violence and violent speech by the left!

Calling the US an experiment is defeatist. I've never thought of it that way.

Your quote from the furniture abuser shows that he knows how a trade deficit works: the seller holds dollar-denominated US debt. A sane person would see this as a good thing in the world of global trade. It's how modern-day economic imperialism works.