Manifest Destiny

Jeffrey St. Clair >>

For the past four years in exile, Trump seems to have been marinating in the accolades of the YouTube evangelists who have proclaimed him Manifest Destiny’s Child, the savoir of Christian America in a demon-haunted world. The former self-proclaimed nationalist has emerged as a Teddy Roosevelt imperialist with designs on expanding the empire by annexing Canada, Greenland, northern Mexico, Panama and, yes, Mars.

The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.