Source: The American Conservative
by Bill Kauffan
“I daresay not a soul in a million who voted for Donald Trump last November did so because he or she wanted to buy Greenland, annex Canada, seize the Panama Canal, or ‘own’ Gaza and displace 2 million human beings. This expansionist frenzy isn’t America First: Trump’s land-and-people grab is to the historic political tendency of America First as murdering the adulterous lover whose inheritance you stole is to the Ten Commandments. The utter perversion of America First by people who couldn’t even spit the phrase out a couple decades ago — ‘tainted’ as it was by association with the antiwar tradition—astonishes. Once the term America First was denatured, market-tested, and approved, it was coopted by the usual Beltway grifters: people who sneered at Trump 10 years ago but slobber over him now.” (04/16/25)