Decline is not good and will be very messy both domestically and internationally. I think the US has been declining since 9/11 and it's only become more noticeable. I don't think it will lose its superpower status anytime soon though. It will just have to share it with a few other countries, China being the most notable.
As much as I hate to say this, it's something both sides do. One overestimates how much more powerful the US is and the other underestimates it.
I also think that the US will become "isolationist" for a brief period to lick its wounds and focus their attention on North America and extracting as much as they can before returning to global imperialism again.
Decline is not good and will be very messy both domestically and internationally. I think the US has been declining since 9/11 and it's only become more noticeable. I don't think it will lose its superpower status anytime soon though. It will just have to share it with a few other countries, China being the most notable.
As much as I hate to say this, it's something both sides do. One overestimates how much more powerful the US is and the other underestimates it.
I also think that the US will become "isolationist" for a brief period to lick its wounds and focus their attention on North America and extracting as much as they can before returning to global imperialism again.