Exceptionalism.

There is a strange poetry to the fact that those who most vociferously demand that the concept of American Exceptionalism be accepted without question are the very same people who, ironically, are suspicious of any American that is in fact exceptional. Curious. - XMASTIME

Joe Klein, on the absurdly entertaining clown rodeo show we're about to watch (entertaining were it not so frightening):

"This is my 10th presidential campaign, Lord help me. I have never before seen such a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers coagulated under a single party's banner. They are the most compelling argument I've seen against American exceptionalism."