The American empire is in crisis – and there is a new generation of more vocal critics coming from the right.
So what do JD Vance and Tucker Carlson actually believe about American power?
James Pogue has reported on empires and their decline for years, from West and Central Africa, where Wagner Group picked over the corpse of French neo-colonialism, to California’s secessionist fringe and the absurdities of Washington.
He also happens to be one of the closest observers of JD Vance, who is just a heartbeat from one of the most powerful positions in the world.
The president’s real job is keeping the machine running: asset prices up, markets juiced, the war economy fed. Can anyone actually change that? And would we even want them to try, if it’s as ideologically peculiar and dangerous as Vance?
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