October 11, 2010

Is this the Republican Party’s concept of Manifest Destiny in 2010?

Let’s revisit the Wikipedia on this historic concept: Context and interpretations Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy. The term combined a belief in expansionism with other popular ideas of the era, including American exceptionalism, Romantic nationalism, and a belief in the natural superiority of the English-speaking peoples (at the […]