Tag: Exceptionalism
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”.
It borders on cliché the number of times historians lament how “fascism” is an over-used term. But Sinclair Lewis, writing about the specter of fascism a century ago, understood something most historians don’t – that U.S. intellectual culture is loathe to acknowledge fascist undercurrents in this country. I attribute this hostility to intellectuals’ belief that their nation is an exceptionalist democracy – hence fascism “can’t happen here.”
Without deeper understanding of Chinese and Russian civilizations, and their way of thinking, Westerners simply are not equipped to get it, Pepe Escobar believes.
With or without Trump, many Americans no longer see the US in the role of global policeman. Europe must take this seriously
