President Trump is floating fantasy annexations of Canada, Gaza, and Panama, motivated by the same imperial twitch as President Putin, seeking to restore the Russian Empire. Trump doesn’t want Greenland just so that he can rename it Orangeland.

He is an imperialist.

Which raises the diverting question of what ideas imperialists share with ethno-nationalist MAGA isolationists, and the oligarch libertarians who have formed his kitchen cabinet, like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.

All these political philosophies are motivated by the idea that an elite class is more worthy than others. The gains should go to the powerful. The poor are losers.

Compared to the oligarchs, you are poor. Smaller countries, like Canada and Denmark, are weak. Losers.

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