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It's American exceptionalism taken to an absurd and frightening extreme.
Is that to those with that particular viewpoint, our goodness is self-evident, and not even worth a thought, let alone scrutiny. It's like a recipe for evil. Take one measure of exaggerated threat , two measures of hesitant uncertainty, simmer slowly. Little happen. Add one measure of "Can't do wrong" and suddenly the whole thing explodes!
