This was the decade America’s self-serving myths fell apart | Aziz Rana

The country’s beliefs in exceptionalism and meritocracy came up against Donald Trump and his politics of exclusionThe 2010s was the decade that forced American politicians and commentators to confront the limits of the country’s own mythology. Political elites in both parties had long shared the same conventional wisdom about the United States, grounded in ideas of exceptionalism and institutional perfection. But with the rise of Donald Trump and the return of a virulent politics of xenophobia and exclusion, it became increasingly difficult, even for many in the political establishment, to reproduce these past homilies. Today the US is truly at a crossroads. Are Americans willing to confront the failures that led to the present, or will the US remain trapped in the same cycles of crisis and popular disaffection?How can you talk about American meritocracy when so much power is defined by nepotism, incompetence and sheer impunity? Continue reading…
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