Well you have to be full of the exact right kind of BS, with lightly understated confidence, and mostly certainty about what your social-peers proper place in society is.
Visiting the US from Europe in 1986 for the first time, it felt like a vibrant place, well ahead. New York was amazing.
In 2006 I was shocked when visiting family on the east coast to hear that acquaintances there expected me to obviously want to immigrate, get a green card, etc.
At the time the US from my POV was already an extremely iffy broken place.
In 2016, and that is, before the elections, nobody was assuming this anymore.
It takes 6 minutes for a fighter jet to cross the whole of the longest possible stretch of Swiss territory. How many defense missiles for the price of one F35?