"America's Adversaries Commit Crimes; America Merely Stumbles on Its Way to Doing the Right Thing"

"She didn't claim that Trump's detention centers are the equivalent of Auschwitz. But she denied that America is a separate moral category, so inherently different from the world's worst regimes that it requires a separate language. On Tuesday night she retweeted the actor George Takei, who wrote, 'I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America.' This was another act of linguistic transgression. When remembering the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II, Americans have generally employed the term internment camps—largely, the historian Roger Daniels has argued, to create a clear separation between America’s misdeeds and those of its hated foes.
"Ocasio-Cortez and others on the Millennial-led left are challenging that separation now."

Peter Beinert at The Atlantic writes that "for the first time in decades, the left is mounting a serious challenge to American exceptionalism."