Self-inflicted wounds

If you were bent on weakening the United States, and you somehow managed to be elected President, what might your strategy be?

Create division among the people?  Engineer tax cuts for the rich while people on the bottom receive increases in medical costs and food prices?

Wreck international trade relations?  Impose tariffs on imports and harm trading partners?

Keep out foreign intellectuals?  Reduce the number of foreign students and alienate the world’s top intellectuals?

Weaken the military?  Order it to get involved in ordinary police work and order it to kill foreign nationals on boats on the high seas?  Appoint an alcoholic pundit to be Secretary of “War”?

Use the Department of Justice to harass personal enemies?

Denigrate beloved national institutions and symbols like national parks, the Medal of Freedom, even the White House?

Go after the press and call it the enemy of the people, then blur the line between truth and fiction?

Appoint idiots to positions of authority?

Alienate our closest allies and suck up to foreign enemies?

Undermine the rule of law?

Deny scientific evidence on global warming and undertake policies that will make it worse?

I sometimes think Trump must be a foreign agent.  His hatred of America has no bounds.  By the end of his term we will be weak, divided, and unable to deal with crises.  That may be true already.