While the US is a very big chunk of NATO, it's not ALL of NATO. And while the US has certainly betrayed its principles, the other members seem to be waking up to that fact.
Putin wasn't on the ballot. FSM wasn't on the ballot. Harris and Trump were on the ballot, and the US has a first-past-the-post electoral system (to its demerit) and like it or not if you didn't endorse the loser you implicitly endorsed the winner. It's zero-sum. That's how it works. Trump now represents you, the entirety of the US of A, whether you like it or not.
People who shout "it's not my fault, I didn't vote!" are just trying to abdicate their responsibility and excuse their pathetic passivity. Nobody gives a shit.
"I didn't drown that little girl in the pool. I stood there and watched her drown, but I didn't drown her. How dare you imply I'm culpable?"
I never said they voted FOR Trump. Read what I wrote. Not making a choice is itself a choice. 77.3M voted for Trump. 75M voted for Harris. 89.2M stuck their thumbs up their asses and didn't express an opinion. 77.3M + 89.2M is a majority. I don't care if it was malevolence, negligence, indifference or apathy. It was abundantly clear that Trump was going to do bad things. They either thought those bad things were going to be good, or they didn't think the bad things would happen to them.
When evil triumphs don't try to plead the morality of "good men who did nothing".
The point I'm making is exactly what I wrote. The majority of voters either voted for Trump, OR looked at Trump - a verifiably incompetent lunatic who'd had one term already and fucked everything up - and said "Meh... whatever happens, happens". They did NOT vote to keep him out.
He has and had no intention of issuing "tariff checks", any more than he would "DOGE dividends". It's bullshit he came up with to try to pressure the courts into not invalidating his tariffs, or to rile up the gullible and use them to threaten judges after they do so.
I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they'd just "yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me".
They'd get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.
"This will definitely get me a Peace Prize!"