I have mixed feelings here. I agree with you, but I also agree with your most scathing critics! The US, like every other nation and culture on the planet, is capable of BOTH sublime and inspiring grandeur AND appalling and heart-wrenching atrocities based on greed, nationalism, and bigotry. Both Martin Luther King and Donald Trump, that is, are quintessentially “American,” just as both Goethe and Hitler were German, and Tolstoy and Putin are Russians…