The article discusses Donald Trump's shift from a populist isolationist stance during his first term to a newly declared vision of American imperialism as he enters his second term. This new approach abandons the promotion of liberal values and embraces the idea of expansion based solely on raw power, echoing historical concepts of 'manifest destiny.' His previous attacks on international institutions might have been a strategic move to facilitate this imperialistic approach, potentially misleading his loyal supporters about his true intentions and political evolution.
As Trump enters his second term, those attacks now seem more purposeful... laying tracks for a more ambitious plan, weakening those institutions so that he could eventually exploit their weakness.
In Trump's newly hatched vision of empire, America stands poised to expand - not just into Panama but into Greenland and outer space - simply because its raw power entitles it to expand.
This new policy represents a twist in his evolution that makes some of his most ardent supporters look like suckers, shifting from isolationism to imperialism.
During his first term, Trump set about dismantling the architecture of postwar internationalism by trash-talking and bullying the institutional implements of global cooperation.
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