I have a lot of bad things to say about America. It was built on genocide and slavery. It has never not been racist, beginning with the 3/5th compromise, continuing through the Civil War, through the Chinese Exclusion Act, through Japenese internment camps, through Jim Crow, through the assassination of MLK and other civil rights leaders, through the Southern Strategy and "state's rights," through the Islamophobic "war on terror," through the Birther movement, into the election of Donald Trump and his Muslim Ban, family separations, Remain in Mexico, and the Great Replacement theory.
Our cherished institutions are bullshit. The Supreme Court is and always has been a tool for political operatives to achieve what they could never achieve through a popular vote. Congress is broken seemingly by design. The Electoral College did not make sense at the time of the founding and makes even less sense today.
Meritocracy is a myth. The idea that a person's accumulation of wealth corresponds to their contributions to society is a joke. American exceptionalism is unsubstantiated propaganda. And don't get me started on all of our unwarranted interference with the affairs of other countries.
That is my take on America, and although I'm incredibly jaded about America and disinclined to believe anything positive about it, one of the few attributes about America that I can't deny is that for better or for worse (usually for worse) the people are very attached to individualism and the principles of limited power. Moreso than the Russian people. Sure, we haven't been tested much in that respect since FDR, but I just don't see an overwhelmingly Millennial and Gen Z workforce going along with an autocracy.