The debate on American Decline, or the existence of American decline, is meta. Yet, it is an important debate to have.
So, let’s do it.
As a preliminary matter, I must point out that the opposite of American Declinism is not American Exceptionalism. While American exceptionalism may find roots in European critique of an ethnocentric America, the most common notion of exceptionalism in American is one used by Americans ourselves.
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