Fareed Zakaria

Because sometimes people talk about, oh, he loves McKinley and he liked tariffs and he's like McKinley in that imperialism.

No, Trump is more like a rapacious 18th century European imperialist who did not have any of McKinley.

McKinley said he went to the Philippines because he wanted to Christianize the place.

And there was none of that sense of uplift.

Most of it was just

brutal.

And it was, as you say, the individual was never at the center of it.

Human life and dignity was never at the center of it.

It was all a kind of self-interested, short-term, extractive game.

And Trump is hearkening back to that.

And it's interesting to ask where he gets it from, because it really is probably fair to say that

Nobody else on the American political spectrum, if they were president, would speak like that.

I don't think J.D.

Vance would speak like that.

I don't think Marco Rubio would speak like that.

So there's something that he brings to it

which is a kind of callousness and a contempt for any of those kind of the expression of those values.

For him, that's all a sign of weakness.

That's the kind of bullshit people say.

But the reality is the way he looks at the world.