Try to get your head around the magnitude of American FORMER power - as oppose to tday's senile alleged crook

Try to get your head around the magnitude of American power in 1955. The US had set up Bretton Woods and Nato. It had revived Japan and western Europe. It led mass culture (Hollywood, Elvis Presley) and high art (Abstract Expressionism, Saul Bellow). It had a monstrous share of global output. It had leaders thate were far sighted  far-sighted as opposed to today's octognerian alleged crook