” America is exceptional in part because we rejected European authoritarianism, some of which was cloaked in Christian trappings. Their flawed approach was to build a “Holy Roman Empire” that replaced God as King with earthly kings who claimed God’s authority. It resulted in a governmental system of elites who exploited everyone else, and allowed for the whims of mortals to lord over others... “
What is “exceptional” here is the nonsense, lies and slander of this historic portrayal.
Combines the best smears of Medieval Europe from anti-Christian athiests, Marxists and anarchists, with some self-regarding RAH-RAH USA ! BS.
Anybody with any self-awareness in 2024 America (or any Western country) would not be writing about past historic Regimes as “a governmental system of elites who exploited everyone else”.
Why does that bother you? it sounds like he’s describing the average monarchy to me, the norm for government at the time of the revolution.