Dean Malik has been busy fending off critics of his "Identity Politics: the denial of American Exceptionalism," which American Thinker published a few weeks ago. I am among those critics. I will focus on what Malik had to say about my remarks in his "An American First, Always, and Last: a Response to Critics." My rebuttal is divided into three sections. In the first I respond to the specific charges that Malik made against my arguments. In the second, I correct his mischaracterization of Burke. In the third, I draw the reader's attention to three of our nation's Founders -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin -- in order to show that when it comes to the issues of race, ethnicity, and religion, they shared the sensibilities of their contemporaries, not the politically correct sympathies of ours. I select these three Founders for two reasons. First, time and space constraints prevent me from extending the list indefinitely -- as I effortlessly could have done. Second, given Malik's enthusiasm over....
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