This is the kind of loony tunes rant that makes reading The Corner worthwhile. America's rise in global popularity under Obama is hard for the unreconstructed right to acknowledge, let alone rationalise. Victor Davis Hanson has a good go though; arguing, quite sincerely, that America is at its best when it's unpopular:
The real key to being a popular America seems to be to empathize with non-Western totalitarians, to move away from Israel, and to suggest that criticism of the U.S. is right on — and, in other words, to end the two-centuries-long notion that what made the United States utterly unique and an oasis on the world scene was its often lonely antithesis to what went on almost everywhere else. Being popular is being like most others.
Who would have thought it - a Marxist at The Corner? Albeit a Groucho Marxist.
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