Raw Story: Foreign countries 'cannot believe what we are doing to ourselves': Morning Joe

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3. I can believe it. What I still can't believe is how many voters were

so self-blinded and pig-headed that they voted for Orange Julius and the ruling party. I used to believe that this was something Third World countries lacking experience with free republics and the norms of representative government did, not the United States of America.

How wrong I was!

One of the ironies of our current situation is that American xenophobes beating the drums for severe immigration restrictions used to go around saying that those dang foreigners didn’t understand democracy, American culture, or how to conduct themselves in a free country. The punch line was that the people who re-elected Orange Julius were American citizens who’ were born here, educated here, and whose families more often been here for generations, if not for centuries. THEY were the ones who turned out to vote for Orange Man, not the brown-skinned foreigners from far away.

American exceptionalism is dead. The chattering classes on the center and right are too clueless to figure that out.