Very interesting take but I think you're giving Trump way too much credit. Trump is a special case because he has the ability to make his detractors underrate his intelligence but somehow manages to make his admires overrate it. I don't think there's some real grand plan on Trump's part, I just think MAGA ideology is just an extreme reaction to a changing world where they no longer feel they can control like they used to and they feel if they don't get a grip on things soon that chance to maintain their dominance will slip away for a VERY long time. Internally, they feel the problem is too much non-white immigrants and if they don't put a stop to that soon they'll end up a minority and the brown folks will be in control. Externally, the main treat to their dominance is China, a vast civilization state of 1.4 billion people that has survived peaks and troughs for 5000 years and has finally stood up. No country has ever threatened European dominance since capitalism became en vogue in the 15th century but now those non white folks are seriously moving at high speed to the top? For them it can't happen.
My take on this is simple: I've always said the Americans will lash out and throw away their mask when it's convenient for them. All their talk of freedoms, human rights, and other liberal ideas work only under the framework of white dominance, the minute they don't dominate they'll use every illiberal means to do so (we saw glimpses of this during the Cold War). This is pretty much what we're witnessing now, the world is no longer unipolar but many of them simply refuse to accept this reality.
