As crisis rages, Europeans react to US role with sadness, disbelief - The Boston Globe

As crisis rages, Europeans react to US role with sadness, disbelief - The Boston Globe: The pandemic has done more than take lives and livelihoods. It is shaking fundamental assumptions about American exceptionalism — the special role the United States played for decades after World War II as the reach of its values and power made it an example to the world.