Horny for Territory, or Desperate for a Fix?
The class politics underneath the Trump administration’s obsession with territorial control and extraction.
Dan Drezner1 wrote an essay for Reason magazine, a libertarian outfit. In his newsletter, he said he originally tried to insert a line in it characterizing Trump as “horny for territory,” but the editors took it out (I can relate).
To explain Trump’s territory fetish, Drezner argues the following:
First, Trump has always p…