Do you think president Trump leadership could not only make America great again but make America even greater than she ever was?

It depends how you define "great."
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Great - 

1. Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average.

1.1 Impressive or grand. ‘a great ocean between them’

1.2 attributive  - in names of animals or plants which are larger than similar kinds, e.g. great tit, greater celandine.

1.3 attributive - in place names Denoting the larger or largest part of a place.‘Great Malvern’

        1.4 attributive  - (of a city) including adjacent urban areas.’ 

e.g. Greater Manchester’

2     Of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above average.

2.1 the Great - Used as a title to denote the most important person of the name.

2.2 informal Very good; excellent.

2.3 informal (of a person) very skilled in a particular area.

3 attributive -  Used before a noun to emphasize a particular description of someone or something.‘her great friend Joe’

      3.1 Denoting the element of something that is the most important or the most worthy of consideration.

3.2 Used to reinforce another adjective of size or extent.’

3.3 Used to express surprise, admiration, or contempt, especially in exclamations. ‘you great oaf!’

4 in combination (in names of family relationships) denoting one degree further removed upwards or downwards.
‘great-aunt’, ’great-great-grandfather’

5 Irish predicative (of two people) on very close or intimate terms. ‘one of the boys was very great with her’

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So the question is, is America's relative greatness defined by the size of its geographic area, population, economy, armed forces, democracy, freedom of speech, levels of justice and personal freedom, freedom from violence, protections of human rights, records of compassion, inventions, and/or culture?

The USA has the largest economy in the world at $19.42 trillion, which is 25% of the gross world product, followed by China's $11.8 trillion and Japan's $4.84 trillion. 
By this statistic, even if the USA's GDP has dropped, it is nowhere near at risk of falling below any other country's economy - or at least, not in the foreseeable future.
China's population is 1.404 billion, India's 1.324 billion, and the USA's 311.6 million, so both China's and India's economies could easily outstrip America's.

How would Americans rate America's greatness on all the other measures?

Could the concepts of greatness and nationalism be tools of populist government, and if so, for what purpose are they used?

Must "greatness"  mean competition at the expense of others,
or could it mean willingness to interact as a global friend with other nations?

Is "greatness" a quality demanded by every nation's ego in order to feel good about the national-self?
Is this necessary to the national welfare?
And if so, is any nation willing and able to be honest about itself?

In all the world's history, every great culture has met a point at which it over-reaches itself and meets a point at which decay becomes inevitable.
There are built-in forces of entropy which mean that all living entities one day die.

So the question could also be, if greatness is defined by a nation's, an empire's or a culture's achievements at its prime, how mature is the USA?



This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at June 4, 2018 11:21 PM MDT