If you're going to do regime change you can't go halfway in and you need a lot of patience (blood and $). America before Trump often went all-in but usually lacked patience. America with Trump won't even go halfway and has zero patience. What Trump brings is the facade of change and nothing else. In-between our failures, we move back to Realpolitik and from afar, support popular uprisings. But, a few years later, we have people who insist, "this time it'll be different", but have no plan.