“Our country is a lot weaker in 2023 than it was, say, in 1983,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts told me in an interview this week. “We aren’t saying that we’re in decline,” he says, “but we’re on the brink of it.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-time-is-it-at-the-heritage-foundation-regan-war-ukraine-military-funding-taiwan-invasion-9a3f8ece (https://archive.ph/fXy6y) 

 @2a48eef0 no, we’re not in decline, we’re just way worse off with no sign or prospect of turning it around.