Reputations take a long time to build but can be quickly destroyed

 US support for science is one of the things that will be hard to make reliable again.

Here's a story from the Washington Post, about and including an interview with the mathematician Terence Tao.

 The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding.  Terence Tao, often called the “Mozart of Math,” is focused on fundraising after federal research funding to UCLA was suspended.  By Carolyn Y. Johnson

" What’s hardest to restore is the sense of predictability and stability.

"People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now. The things that you took for granted, there was bipartisan support to keep certain things in the U.S. running as they have been more or less for the past 70 years because the system worked. That’s not a safe assumption anymore."