In a report in The Post recently, Brussels bureau chief Michael Birnbaum wrote: “Europeans have lamented that the United States has relinquished its role as a global moral leader under President Trump.

But the proliferation of Black Lives Matter protests around the world has solidified belief here that American society remains a superpower of influence, even if its politicians do not.”.

Before their Revolution, Americans who saw the emerging new nation as a global moral leader were regarded by some as hypocritical in the extreme.

In the past few years, the world has seen an American president insult democratic, freely elected national leaders abroad while praising an unsavory collection of authoritarian and totalitarian despots whom he seems to regard as role models.

This year the world has seen millions of Americans getting back to our basics.

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