It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.
There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.
I think 'The Americans' is exceptional on every level.
America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions.
What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.