after becoming frustrated with my inability to interpret the documentation to do what i want, I copied the whole directory name, which is an absolute pain on ACD, but then it copied all the files inside, without creating the directory.
rclone “amazon:/home/user/data/Jimmy has a long directory name” ./
The syntax for including a single directory is --include "/path/to/directory/**"
If you just want a directory the easiest way is to use the path to the directory - you need to name the directory as the destination though - rclone syncs copys directory to directory
rclone copy "amazon:/home/user/data/Jimmy has a long directory name" Jimmy
would be what you want to copy everything into a directory called Jimmy.