The deeply American roots of Trump’s imperial ambitions

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on February 13, 2017, in Washington, DC.

Back in 2016, when much of the political press was casting Donald Trump as a dovish counterpart to Hillary Clinton, I wrote a story arguing that people were fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of Trump’s approach to foreign policy. Though Trump certainly wasn’t a neoconservative, I argued, he was a different and older kind of nationalist hawk ...