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Trump traps US in 'vicious cycle' as 'his power hemorrhages': DC insider

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During Donald Trump's first presidency, many Never Trump conservatives attacked him as an "isolationist" who failed to understand the importance of the United States' leadership role in global politics. Trump, however, took a much more interventionist turn after returning to the White House roughly 19 and one-half months ago. But according to Democratic insider Sidney Blumenthal — a former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton — Trump's "imperialism" is making the U.S. weaker, not stronger, around the world . Blumenthal, in an op-ed for The Guardian, describes Trumpism as "the lowest stage of imperialism" — arguing that Trump showed how confused he is when he told members of the Alfalfa Club , "It's never been my intention to make Greenland the 51st state. I want to make Canada the 51st state. Greenland will be the 52nd state. Venezuela can be 53rd." "Trump's imperialism of piracy and plunder is less of a system even than that of the earliest imperialism of 17th Century privateers raidin

First report: Trump’s clash with Canada is his latest imperialistic embarrassment | Sidney Blumenthal — theguardian.com, 3d