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Thomas Jefferson never ventured west of Virginia.

The Blue Ridge mountains whose smoky haze came from the isoprene emitted by the spruces

and furs that cover the peaks were the physical frontier of the founding father's life.

But his mind traveled further as the architect of the Empire of Liberty doctrine.

Jefferson was so convinced of the intrinsic God-given greatness of America

that he felt a responsibility to expand the Union Westwood.

The country nearly doubled in size during his presidency.

Of course, in the name of spreading freedom, the Empire of Liberty did quite the opposite

for the Native Americans whose lands were annexed or the slaves whose backs America was built on.

But Jefferson's belief is an early example of American exceptionalism, the certainty that

the United States is simply better than the rest of the world.

It's an idea that can be traced from Jefferson's Empire of Liberty through Abraham Lincoln's

Gettysburg Address to the Truman Doctrine and even George W. Bush's War on Terror.

But new research from the Economist shows that a significant chunk of Liberals feel that

far from being the best, America is actually the worst.

I'm John Prado and this is Chex and Balance.

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