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They want to meet me not because I'm Mike from Kansas, because I represent the greatest nation in the history of civilization. โ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 28 February 2020
I want everyone to be reminded that America remains the world's leading light of humanitarian goodness as well amidst this global pandemic. โ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 7 April 2020
...no greater privilege and no greater honour than serving as the commander in chief of the greatest military in the history of the world. โ Barack Obama January 2018One of the curiosities about the United States is that, on the one hand, Americans are forever boasting about how powerful, how democratic and altogether wonderful their country is while, on the other hand, they are receptive to assertions that this mightiness and excellence is on the brink of disappearing. It's a very peculiar state of affairs probably best left to psychiatrists to ponder. We laypeople are left wondering: has there ever been so frightened a superpower? So mighty and all about to be lost.
Comment: A case of identification: It takes a 'demented party' to promote a 'demented candidate' and see him as a viable option to run the country. 'Nothing' expected; 'nothing' gained. (Note to Trump: That glass is empty!)