American Exceptionalism and Trump?

I’ve seen a few posts and comments on American Exceptionalism, and how this is misunderstood by one group or another, or how it is embodied by one politician or another. To the extent that anyone believes that American Exceptionalism is derived from the genius of our Constitution and its framers, I believe the root of this concept is best encapsulated in the Federalist Papers, and, further, would go so far as to challenge anyone who says they have command of this concept to frame it along the doctrines laid out in the constituent articles. The papers were published in 1787 by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, all of whom were intellectual giants, especially in relation to today’s politicians, and all of whom were making the case for the constitution of a union, along with a caution against disunion, either as 13 states or 3 or 4 confederations. If you endeavor to read them, you might be surprised by the similarities of the challenges of our day to the challenges of their day. In short, we have not evolved all that much philosophically over the past 200+ years. You might reach the same conclusion about the last 2,000+ years if you read Plato’s dialogues. I will leave it to you to read the papers, or not, and discern American Exceptionalism, or not, at least insofar as you can discern it from the papers, but I can tell you in advance that Trump’s behavior does not embody the spirit or the substance of American Exceptionalism in its unifying, mutually inclusive and anti-factious form. When people invoke the concept of American Exceptionalism alongside any argument that Trump exemplifies it, I take exception (wink). I would much rather someone simply say, “he is effective and he gets results”, without trying to equate him with the more noble principles in American Exceptionalism, especially pluralism and representation.