The quoted sentence in your subject has nothing to do with American politics, but the American character, which your predictable hair-trigger defensive response only corroborates.

Daniel Martin is a character in a novel I've just started reading, an English screenwriter living in Los Angeles, torn between his English roots and American prosperity and musing about the contrast between Americans and Englishmen. I quote it because of the beauty of the language and the subtlety of the thought. It is not a political novel, and the passage does not necessarily reflect the political opinions of the character, the writer, or even this reader. In fact, it is embedded in, and supports a longer meditation on the differences between American and British English, which I see now I probably should have included.

Lee's assessment is more thoughtful and perceptive than your knee-jerk reaction, TB, and closer to what Fowles is actually saying, an opinion, by the way, I don't particularly believe myself. It's a good thing I don't subscribe to the usual simplistic Freudian interpretations or I might be tempted to ascribe your eruption to a paranoia based on insecurity when faced with any concept which might be even remotely threatening to your preconceptions.