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It's about 50/50 whether the US will be able to maintain any semblance of democracy.
The alliances are effectively dead already. Dropping military support to a country during an active war is a huge no-no. No one will ever trust the US ever again. It doesn't matter if there's a Democrat president in 2029, no one can trust the American people to not vote in a betrayer like Trump again. The first time Trump was president, it was like "they didn't know who they were voting for." Just a bump in the road of democracy. This time, Americans knew what they were voting for.
And we talk to Americans on the internet, we know that Americans don't respect their allies. The soldiers of allied countries that sacrificed everything in Afghanistan and Iraq doesn't even register with most Americans. There is too little sense of honour in the American population. Americans only care about money now, and that's not a motivation that can be trusted by anyone.
Sorry, but Americans are too untrustworthy for meaningful alliances to be possible.
I agree that how the US treated its allies is abominable (our abandonment of local guides and translators, who were promised a place in America for risking the lives of themselves and their families, to be murdered by the Taliban/ISIS should be prosecuted as a crime - not to mention the minorities left to die to appease larger powers, such as the Kurds, Armenians, and now Ukrainians). However, most Americans don't know about any of this.
Most Americans are living in a bubble that hides or vastly distorts anything outside of it. Our media is hyper-focused on a narrow band of issues that gets guaranteed views (mostly culture wars that said media invented or spread in the first place) and only pays lip service to anything outside of that. For many, "news" means pithy one-liners and relentless attacks on the other side. They're told some minor issue is the single most important thing right now and are so whipped up they don't look outside to see the world is burning. The right-wing media is an endless parade of hate, while the left complains about said right while offering no solutions. Neutral media is a joke, and foreign news has no foothold outside individual posts being shared if they agree with a person's existing position. Major news gets cycled out after mere days and is quickly buried by the next meaningless story. It's a constant cavalcade of worthless noise that obscures any actual reporting.
If America could somehow shrug off the 24-jour news hype cycle and see what's actually happening in the world, I think you'd find there's a great deal of empathy in the populace - it'd be hard to stir up an audience if they didn't care about something. Sadly, I can't see such a thing ever happening - the biggest shakeup in news this decade was Fox being called "woke" and what was once tabloid trash becoming accepted sources amongst the right, even getting dedicated reporting positions in the government while traditional media was kicked out. So if anything it's only going to get worse, with the addiction to drama and outrage leading half the country even further into isolation and delusion.