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.
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Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.
We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!
Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.