The Coronavirus Could End American Exceptionalism - The Atlantic - 0 views
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many American politicians, especially those on the right, have in recent years paradoxically doubled down on American exceptionalism (we have a president who ran on an “America first” platform, after all) even as American power has declined relative to other countries’.
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This kind of insularity might have been “relatively harmless when America bestrode the world like a colossus, but it’s dangerous when the country faces a raft of global challenges from China, to climate, to COVID-19,” Dominic Tierney, a political-science professor at Swarthmore College
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It has also failed to develop proper contact-tracing systems, as other nations have, and to meaningfully flatten the curve outside New York.
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