Trump is not an aberration. He’s the logical conclusion to decades of sanctions and imperialist posturing. He’s the inevitable trigger man. If it wasn’t him staring these wars and conducting these coups, it would be someone else. Because militarism and imperial dogma transcends party or the narrow and distracting social ideologies that masquerade as democracy. The US is always building towards violence. Always. Precisely how it is expressed, and who expresses it, are the only unknowns.

Nate Bear