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Has there been a great man more misunderstood than Donald Trump? Methinks not.

When he sloganised “America First” and “Make America Great Again”, political pundits saw this as a reversion to a myopic autarky –an inward-looking nationalism of the white, evangelical, hinterlandish citizenry whom Trump now meant to foreground as the kosher America long neglected by the dandy Left liberals of the East Coast.

More fool they.

Each day that passes makes it known that in saying “America First” and “MAGA”, he was not conjuring merely a new form of local patriotism, but indeed calling upon all nations and governments of the world to make this agenda their own as well.

Ergo, all countries of the hitherto misbegotten globe were henceforth to tailor their inconsequential national priorities primarily to enable the MAGA vision to bloom and fructify, and to make of us all its faithful undertakers .

Thus, a new, well-intentioned imperialism was conjured that mistakenly seemed like a collapse into a bird-brained provincial America.

What wonder then that as the year has gone by, we have seen Trump install and further not just the Donroe Doctrine bearing on the Western hemisphere, but laying out policy directions for nation-states far and wide as vassal colonies to a new empire.

Thus, which government may fire what number of shots in a localised skirmish, or not, or buy munitions in what quantities and what rates from the Pentagon, declare ceasefire at which hand of the clock in whichever part of the world, trade or not trade freely in oil, rare-earth minerals, etc from which market of Trump’s choosing, sign on the dotted line of deals to the best enhancement of MAGA, make announcements........

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