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America is no longer the exceptional country it once was, says famed libertarian social scientist Charles Murray.
“The American personality is still recognizable around the world, but in most other ways we are becoming just another social democracy, obsessed with security, fearful of risk, and highly regulated,” Murray told The Daily Caller in an interview about his new monograph, “American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History.”
Murray, who is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of several influential and controversial books, says a”good case can be made” that America began to falter with the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
“The usual suspect, FDR, obviously began the American welfare state,” Murray said.
“But a good case can be made that the United States was still exceptional in most of the original ways at the time Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency. I continue to hold the views I expressed in ‘Losing Ground.’ The reforms of the 1960s disastrously changed the course of our civic culture, and in doing so destroyed much that made America exceptional.”
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