Elite European circles … play the ostrich, hoping that Americans will be more reasonable next time and elect a more civilized president

Attitudes toward the U.S. in elite European circles range from a feeling of superiority to plain anti-Americanism. At best, we see Americans as overgrown children who have not yet managed to separate from mother Europe. At worst, they are seen as ugly imperialists. This America of today is no longer a part of our Western Atlantic world. But we play the ostrich, hoping that Americans will be more reasonable next time and elect a more civilized president.

— How Europeans Can Begin a Rediscovery of America by Guy Sorman, Jan. 31, 1983