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Not really. All democratic countries understood the fragility and flaws of their systems. Canada routinely shits on it's "first past the post system" for example. Our love for our country is only matched by our endless bitching about its flaws and limitations.
Only the US went around tooting their own horn and dared call themselves a "bastion of democracy". "End of history", "Leader of the Free World" and all similar bullshit. Pride before the fall. At best, the rest of the world tolerated it as aspirational. Like when a low IQ child says they want to be an astronaut when they grow up. The adults don't want to crush a kid's dreams. We hope you guys would believe it enough to make it mostly true.
To Mark Carney's Davos speech - The rest of the world pretended it was sorta true, even when we knew it wasn't. We hoped maybe your shit would get better but it was just apathy, convenience and momentum on our parts. A great many around the world were calling the US out as psychotically fucked and terminally corrupt long before Trump.
You make an excellent point about all the neofascist groups and maga type morons around the world. But everyone has long acknowledged these risks and your point has been in the public debate since forever. Most other western democracies have held them back to date, and they deserve credit for that. Even when right wing parties win, they are still largely constrained in what they can do. The US doesn't anymore.
I turn my nose up at you, because you let the patients take over the insane asylum. The US is now the premiere threat to my country. I don't take vacations or jobs in Russia, Israel, China, North Korea, Iran and the like either. I talk shit about all of them at every opportunity too and none of them want to annex us. That you feel singled out like you are being treated as "uniquely ridiculous" just smacks of american hubris.