To suggest otherwise is to ignore a mountain of well documented data. Other things they don't do as well, but there's nothing wrong with benefiting from what's working other places if it can be applied here. It's sad and ironic to see the role reversal that's taken place as America has become increasingly reactionary and Europe increasingly progressive, so that the innovative upstart who rocketed past the stodgy old traditionalists has now assumed their role. America showed Europe that you can't keep doing everything the same way forever and expect to stay on top, but once we gained ascendancy we seem to have forgotten the lesson even as they applied it.

I don't envy Europes enduring problems dealing with their own melting pot, the practice of making it illegal to say racist things as if that will make them go away, and I certainly wish more Europeans would stop insisting that the lesson of WWII is the lesson they took from the Great War that allowed WWII to happen. But they manage to provide universal healthcare as a civil right without going bankrupt while we can't manage to do either, let alone both, and that suggests maybe it's worth looking at what they're doing right while avoiding what they're doing wrong. When people say they want the country to stay the way it is, or go back to the way it was, what they're saying is they don't think we can do any better. You can't expect time to stand still any more than King George VI could, but more importantly, you shouldn't.