The Slide Into Fascism Has Been Brought To You By "American Exceptionalism"

When a myth gets weaponized, it truly is a slippery slope.

It started with a BlueSky post about a column in Foreign Affairs by centrist professor of diplomacy at Tufts University Daniel Drezner. The column was titled The End of American Exceptionalism and a commenter said that it was a hubris that led to a quasi-dictatorship. Drezner asked for the commenter to draw a causal chain. I decided to take the mantle u…