>Considered most charitably, the current administration sees itself as trying to return to an era of imperialism for the good of the country.

I mean there's charitable interpretation, then there's being an emu and pretending that the transfer of massive wealth to Trump and his cronies through stock market manipulation (after removing checks on said manipulation, apparently) isn't just wide scale theft. $3.4B to only two of Trump's circle {Trump bragged in a recent video} direct from the pockets of regular investors through market manipulation - I could well imagine the total is trillions.

'I'm stealing from you for your own good'!

Hmm.