american exceptionalism is difficult to embrace by the liberal when it is as openly crass as trump yelling make america great again ; this is a land obsessed with packaging and style after all. of keeping up appearances. it’s why so much of the democrats’ criticism of trumpism has to do with his delivery; they object to him ‘soiling’ the white... See more

the supposed secularism of the states has often been touted as sign of its modernity when the reality is that america does have a God: capital.