Look, this isn't an ideology. More of an approach (not sure of the academic term for it, sorry.) I think it's marxist, though others have had the "inevitabili

Look, this isn't an ideology. More of an approach (not sure of the academic term for it, sorry.) I think it's marxist, though others have had the "inevitability of history" at times. As for your examples... Manifest destiny = forward looking. Wasn't good justification for expansion, though good justfications did exist. American exceptionalism = backward looking disruptive innovation = Neither, more just an adjective.