Letter: Trump embodies American ‘exceptionalism’

The United States has always claimed “dominion” — the way Wallace Stevens’ jar placed on a Tennessee hill (“It took dominion everywhere”) does.America continues to nurture “corporate capitalism” over the moldering bones of murdered indigenous tribes; has defended the “republic’s democracy” from blue/gray Civil War, through “the halls of Montezuma” to “the shores of Tripoli,” and into numbered-world wars and