Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked by a reporter yesterday to comment on Donald Trump's threat to use military force against American protesters. Trudeau, who's taken great care to avoid direct public criticisms of his U.S. counterpart, paused and stood silently for 21 seconds.
"We all watch in horror and consternation at what is going on in the United States," the prime minister eventually said, after lengthy consideration.
NBC News had a related report today, which quoted Ziya Meral, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank. "With all of its shortcomings, the U.S. has stood for many ideals we dearly share," he said. "Now we are witnessing an America spiraling down into chaos, poor governance, social friction, poor policing and poor leadership." He added, "The city on a hill no longer inspires or shines."
In late April, the Irish Times' Fintan O'Toole had a rather brutal column on Trump's presidency and its impact on global perceptions of the United States. "Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger," O'Toole wrote. "But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity."
The award-winning columnist added, "The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful."
Trump hasn't made America great, he's made America a pariah. 
So it sounds like it's right-wing, Trump-supporting jagoffs pretending to be Antifa that are the real problem. Yet it's this mythical Antifa that's declared a terrorist group. It's almost as if the Trump jagoffs are being disingenuous to cover their criminality.