There's a whole industry of "reassuring Americans that America is number one" self-help literature, immensely popular with upper-middle-class Americans, They're one of the groups who have lots of disposable income to spend on Substack subscriptions and coastal online newspapers.

The usual article in this genre goes as follows. Pick a topic that Americans are predisposed to feel embarrassed about, and start with a thesis contradicting it:

- USPS is actually the best postal system in the world (my personap favorite, the post that couldn't deliver to AUS/NZ mid-pandemic, even though freaking Serbian post managed to do it just fine)

- Amtrak works better than Japanese rail

- US healthcare actually bankrupts fewer families than UK healthcare,

- the US has higher-quality food than the rest of the world, etc.

Then, latch onto an aspect (the US is bigger than Germany, Japan is a lot denser, the US has more food diversity, the US has better survival outcomes) that's at best significantly different from the common sense meaning of the original controversial claim, at worst completely orthogonal to it. Finally, support this modified thesis with a bunch of cherry-picked evidence from dubious economics journals, while ignoring obvious counterexamples or statistical errors (e.g. that one is comparing rural France to inner SF on food diversity, or anything at all happening in Australia, or any accounting for GDP differences, the one comparable vendor having <2% market share etc.)

There you go, the template for your hip article that will surely get quoted in the next Twitter war. I hear ChatGPT is pretty good at generating them these days, so you don't even have to be creative or have amazing writing skills to get your own.