We used to have long debates about American exceptionalism, about whether this country was an outlier among nations, and I always thought the bulk of the evidence suggested that it was. But these days our political attitudes are pretty ordinary.
America, far from standing out as the champion of democracy, as a nation that welcomes immigrants, as a perpetually youthful nation energized by its faith in the American dream, is now caught in the same sour, populist mood as pretty much everywhere else.
Sixty percent of Americans agreed with the statement that the system is broken, compared to 61 percent in the worldwide sample who agreed with that. Our hostility to elites is average.
Americans' authoritarian tendencies are pretty average. Those results reveal a political climate in the United States and across the world that is ex
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