The End of American Exceptionalism

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1. SS: Foreign Affairs author Daniel Drezner argues that Donald Trump’s second term will relegate the United States to a ‘garden variety’ Great Power. He is a ‘known commodity’ to other world leaders, who will flatter and placate him during negotiations and public meetings in order to protect their interests. The author argues that any withdrawal of support for Ukraine will create a spectacle even worse than the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

   >When the rest of the world looks at Trump, they will no longer see an aberrant exception to American exceptionalism; they will see what America stands for in the twenty-first century.

2. But that’s the thing, isn’t it. America has been so exceptional for so long that even if It stops being that for a while, that itself is such an exception to the rule of American exceptionalism that, unfortunately, America is even more exceptional.

   Also, please f’ing test us if you think that’s the case.

3. Whenever I see a piece titled The End of [insert idea or concept here], I instantly think of The End of History. We’ll see what happens from here.

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