One of the possible positive side effects of the current US situation is the death of 'American Exceptionalism' which has made me cringe on behalf of every US politician (including *every presidential candidate* as far as I know) who invokes 'the Greatest Country in the World' when pandering to their US audiences as if it was an unassailable fact. It's not only easily assailable, it's simplistic unfounded hubris. A little humility would be quite refreshing on yank politicians.