The “greatest nation on earth” and paranoia spiced with a sense of victimhood. We aren’t able to be grownup about who we are.

It’s safe to be paranoid in the U.S.

If you look at the country whose top politicians hardly mention without defensively wielding the words “exceptional” or “indispensable,” the exceptional thing is this: as a great power, the United States still stands alone on planet Earth and Americans can exhibit all the paranoia