As we watch, it seems almost possible to see President Trump, in real time, tweet by tweet, speech by speech, sword dance by sword dance, intervention by intervention, act by act, in the process of dismantling the system of global power ― of "soft power," in particular, and of alliances of every sort ― by which the U.S. made its will felt, made itself a truly global hegemon.
Still, when Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, dismantling racial quotas and allowing skills- and family-based immigration, he didn't do so to help Asians; rather, Greeks and Poles and Italians had cried foul about the larger immigrant quotas for Northern Europeans, and those cries had been heard.
Arriving with her mother and stepfather, both passionate trade unionists who had to leave because of persecution under the Pinochet government, she remembers how the country that took her family to its heart was even then in the act of being dismantled.
He'll be put in charge of dismantling the Affordable Care Act.
Hope of dismantling our nuclear weapons.
Equally foolish is any talk of dismantling the O.C.E.
Moreover, time for dismantling has often been used as a good proxy to assess the easiness of dismantling.
Trump's stated goals of dismantling EPA through budget cuts and regulatory rollbacks would cripple America's highly successful landmark environmental laws, such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
Some of the government's first acts were dismantling of climate change projects and agencies.
And we must be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their organizations of destruction.
