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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lynn Schmidt

Lynn Schmidt: America remains exceptional through the good, the bad and the ugly

America is exceptional. For those who may not believe so or may have forgotten, it is the job of the rest of us to show them the way.

In a focus group of one, a member of generation Z admitted to not considering America particularly exceptional. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering the time in which my daughter has grown up and the context of when we were having this conversation.

This conversation took place on the very same day there was an attack on the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which resulted in her husband’s hospitalization. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who hails from Pelosi’s state of California, was remarkably slow to condemn the attack.

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