Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

American exceptionalism is an exceptionally slippery phrase. People use it to demand that the US do whatever they want from it at that particular moment. James Ceaser called it "one small step for abstraction, one giant leap for abstractionism." But it does have a fixed meaning. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

The story of where those two ideas came from, and how they became fused, is often mistold as emerging from Puritanism, or WW2, or the Cold War. In fact, they were originated as justification for seizing Cuba and the Philippines in the Spanish-American war. — PolitiTweet.org