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Hopefully Republicans will be replaced next election, but history tells us that it will swing back again, because people are pissed Democrats can't repair all the shit Republicans did fast enough. And Republicans will scream and shout about how incompetent the Democrats are at fixing the problems they created. I'm sorry to say so, but the American population is stupid. And we can now see that no matter how incompetent and immoral the Republicans are, they will continue to elect even worse candidates. It would be nice if USA establish an actual democracy, maybe if Americans had more options, we wouldn't see such radical administrations. But it requires getting rid of the way the administration is run by a president with way to much power. Look at the Scandinavian countries and Germany, that is way better forms of democracy, that prevent power from becoming too centralized.
As with Hungary we (EU) will always try do deal with USA in a civil and fair manner, the problem is on the US side.
Don't count on the next US election. The Trump regime already tried a coup after a lost election. Even though Trump himself is as dumb as a pile of shit, the people behind him surely have learned their lesson from the failure of that coup. And that lesson definitely isn't "don't attempt a coup", because it was practically without consequences for them. They are already working on changing the way elections work and are doing purges in the entire executive and judicial branch. They are here to stay.
Yep I agree 100%, and I don't count on USA for anything, including having a fair election at the next presidential election.
I think that's the general sentiment in Europe and obviously also Canada, that we can't count on USA.