This attitude and culture will probably be the downfall of the USA.

Trump personifies this view and takes it to extremes, he basically talks as if whatever he says is all that matters and nothing else is important.

Going to learn the hard way, that's for sure.

I'm a British national. When I left the UK in 2018, people were still talking about Dunkirk like it was a British victory rather than a rolling defeat whose only (even then partially) successful component was the final evacuation; about WW2 like it was a simple victory rather than a Pyrrhic victory; and about the Empire like the end of it was the UK's choice.

I don't share your positive outlook. There's at least two other likely scenario's:

- a large part of the country might not learn at all

- the only lessons being learned are about how to stay in power