Bad News for American Doomers

Bad News for American Doomers

It’s once more springtime for America doomers, those who believe the United States will soon lose its global top-dog status.The Economist, for example, suggests that “the actual land of the free” has moved from America to Europe, with the Continent epitomizing “moral norms” on the climate, free trade, and rule of law. These prophecies — or dreams — of America’s downfall conflate the United States, a people and place, with the US government. The …