![]() ![]() There is no 'divine, messianic' crusade that can harness and redirect passions outward. \"Trumpism,\" Grandin writes, \"is extremism turned inward, all-consuming and self-devouring. ![]() And so politics returned to the border as American expansion hit a wall-figuratively and, as Trump has demanded, very literally. As historian Greg Grandin writes in The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, this expansionist project has finally lost its ideological and material vitality, no longer able to neatly reconcile centuries of mounting contradictions. American liberty has since its foundation relied upon the dispossession of indigenous people and Mexicans, upon African enslavement and, ultimately, upon the constant fleeing outward that created an empire that none dare call by its name. ![]()
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