“Obama has no idea how much he is going to lose here, or perhaps he does. “
Intentional deconstruction of American Exceptionalism.
“American Exceptionalism”
Does anybody know when and where this phrase originated?
I suspect it was invented by Seymour Martin Lipset in the 1990s to represent the neoconservative theory that America is a country founded on an ideology, rather than the conservative view of a country founded by an historic people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/americanexceptionalism.htm
I don’t see why conservatives adopt it. At best it’s hubris, at worst it’s warmed over marxism with a patriotic camouflage.