Franklin Foer: “Throughout his first time period, Trump set about dismantling the structure of postwar internationalism by trash-talking and bullying the institutional implements of worldwide cooperation, the likes of NATO and the World Well being Group. This assault on the outdated order was waged within the title of populism, an assault on elites in overseas capitals who siphoned off taxpayers’ {dollars}. However what Trump hoped to realize with these rhetorical fusillades was generally unclear, aside from pleasing his political base, which adored them.”
“As Trump enters his second time period, these assaults now appear extra purposeful. On reflection, he might have been laying tracks for a extra formidable plan, weakening these establishments in order that he may ultimately exploit their weak point.”
“Over the previous weeks, he’s declared himself the tribune of a brand new period of American imperialism, which abandons any pretext of selling liberal values to the world. In Trump’s newly hatched imaginative and prescient of empire, America stands poised to develop—not simply into Panama however into Greenland and outer house—just because its uncooked energy entitles it to develop.”
