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:oof: 🔥 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/us-history-destruction > American exceptionalism runs deeper than belief. It’s ingrained, bred in the bone. There is no America without American exceptionalism. > The United States increasingly feels like a country overwhelmed by history, smothered by a past it can neither face nor overcome. As the US has declined, politically, economically, socially, culturally, it has turned back to its origin more than ever before, in a doomed quest to retain its conviction of its exceptionality.