Seems perfectly reasonable.
The US was exceptional. It isn’t, so much, anymore.
It’s possible that it might be exceptional, again, but it isn’t looking good.
Agree with you. Its not looking good. IMHO the seismic shift in demographic and cultural changes in America are resulting in a country that will be stuck in the quicksand of mediocrity for a long time to come. The political currents seem to favor this.
Sadly and tragically, nothing short of a national calamity will wake the sheeple up.