I also suspect that the sudden renaming of Denali to Mount McKinley (the old "colonialist" name) has some kind of symbolic significance that goes beyond the merely anti-Woke. After all, Trump didn´t bother renaming the mountain last time he was POTUS.
During his first term, Trump tried to align himself with some purported ideological legacy of Andrew Jackson. At least in US political mythology, "anti-imperialist" Bourbon Democrat Grover Cleveland is seen as a Jackson-style character. William McKinley, by contrast, is more to the liking of the Neo-Conservatives and other imperialists.
Before he took office, Trump triggered diplomatic conflicts with about five nations (even threatening to militarily attack Panama). I presume this is supposed to be some kind of "McKinley moment". So far, it mostly sounds like Nixon´s madman strategy...
No comments:
Post a Comment