The Venezuela Raid Is a Lesson in Intellectual Regression If you were dropped into the White House of the 1890s, much of Donald Trump’s presidency would look entirely unremarkable. Tariffs as a primary economic weapon? Routine. Casual threats of force against weaker neighbors? Common. Immigration restrictions framed in explicitly racial or cultural terms? Standard practice. Even the episodic flirtation with imperial intervention — such as the raid by US forces in Venezuela that seized President Nicolas Maduro — would have fit comfortably into the menta

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