The line right near the end "resurrect the idea of America as the world's the most stable democracy"... let me let you in on something Alexandra- never has been true- no one in the world ever believed that. My god sometimes you americans are so exhausting. Canada, Great Britain, Norway, Iceland, Sweden are all ranked higher if you want to actually somehow score something so ridiculous.
America does not and has not ranked best or greatest or whatever in many many many things ever, or for a long time, or how about this... it's all subjective when comparing to other democratic capitistic free etc etc countries.
This is part of your problem in the US. Everything has to be a competition... oh and you cheat at everything... hilarious that Russia was banned from Olympics, but US is the biggest cheater (do your research the US has the exclusive contract with WADA to provide the testing for athletes... so American athletes are always 1 step ahead).
And, stop invoking your children or flag or whatever to stall debates, just so you can feel indignant.
Oh my god- exhausting.
The rest of the world is hundreds of kilometres ahead of the US in education, innovation, culture, world knowledge... stop being that annoying bigoted bully that we all somehow tolerate, because you have the biggest gun.