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In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet explains why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including riches inequality, health care, climate change, progression, gender tasks, abortion, gay rights, sex, firearm control, mass incarceration, the loss of life penalty, torture, human being rights, and conflict. Lifted in Paris by way of a French mom and Kenyan daddy, Jouet then lived in the Bible Belt, Manhattan, and beyond. Attracting motivation from Alexis de Tocqueville, he wields his multicultural sensibility to parse the way the intense polarization folks conservatives and liberals has become a key sizing of American exceptionalism - an idea widely misinterpreted as American superiority. While exceptionalism once was a way to obtain strength, it could now spell decrease, as unique features of US background, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave issues. They also reveal the interesting ideological progression of American conservatism, which long predated Trumpism. Anti-intellectualism, conspiracy-mongering, a visceral suspicion of federal government, and Christian fundamentalism are far more common in the us than the rest of the Girl - European countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
