Perhaps the only response to reprehensible exclusivity, or to the appropriation of common rhetorical resources (‘America’) for purely partisan purposes, is satire:
The question is: is satire enough? One clearly can’t argue with “real America” language, so what can one do except satirize it?
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Studies in the School of International Service, and also Director of the AU Honors program. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Relations and Development, and is currently Series Editor of the University of Michigan Press' book series Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics.
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