It’s not only the left. A significant portion of the right is like this, too. Helping hasten the collapse of the USSR was bad. Why? Because America did it. Winning World War 2 was bad. Because America did it. Listen to Tucker Carlson. His interpretation of the US history in the twentieth century is identical to that of a Berkeley professor. I mean this in a literal sense, having talked to several Berkeley professors. There’s nothing that America did well in these people’s opinion. Every bastard dictator on the planet is better than the US.