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Inside Trump’s imperial fantasy

Donald Trump has never been known for originality, but his latest act is his most dangerous yet — a desperate imitation of history’s most aggressive land-grabbers and strongmen. From James Polk’s expansionist conquest to William McKinley’s imperialist scheming to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian crackdowns, Trump isn’t just following in their footsteps — he’s trying to outdo them all.Nobody has, to the best of my knowledge, ever argued that Trump is a particularly creative individual or an out-of-the-box thinker. He’s spent much of his life trying to imitate his late father’s…