I think it's unfortunate to just paint this as being a case of Trump being super powerful cuz money.

The reality is there's a dark thing at the heart of most people which tends towards an ethic of "might makes right", and holding government over the most powerful nation in the world and then explicitly propagating that as official national religion is absolutely seductive.

Americans -- like many others -- crave supremacy. Fate and fortune has given them some form of it, and they've been told their whole lives how they deserve it.

But they feel it slipping. "Make America Great Again" is just about that. Others must submit and we will be most powerful.

This Canada stuff is just one small instance of it. The Greenland stuff is even more disturbing.