"But reframed as hemispheric dominance, the right's expansionist impulse fits a civilizational worldview: America as the enforcer of the West, bending weaker nations to its will. What they're saying: In the days after President Trump's stunning capture of Nicolás Maduro, even some of MAGA's loudest non-interventionists began casting strategic lands in America's hemisphere - including Colombia, Cuba and Greenland. "How can you get more 'America First' than Manifest Destiny 2.0?" "War Room" host Steve Bannon told NBC News."
""Expansion is the American way. It has been since literally the first moments of its existence," wrote The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh. "If Americans in the 1800s were as timid and weak as some of the naysayers today, we never would have even reached the Pacific. "[I]t's up to us to keep pushing for the orderly governance of the world via American imperialism," MAGA influencer Mike Cernovich said this week on Tucker Carlson's podcast."
MAGA thought leaders frame hemispheric expansion as a civilizational mission, casting America as the enforcer of the West and legitimizing pressure on weaker nations. After President Trump's stunning capture of Nicolás Maduro, some prominent non‑interventionists proposed strategic lands in the hemisphere — including Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland — as ripe for colonization. Voices such as Steve Bannon, Matt Walsh, and Mike Cernovich invoked Manifest Destiny and American imperialism to justify ordered governance, access to oil and strategic materials, and deterrence of rivals. The calculus emphasizes lower escalation risk nearby, resource leverage, and restoring perceived U.S. strength.
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