Post-Cold War US imperial consensus traded liberal veneer for white nationalism under Trump.

Evidence

In a nutshell, illiberal hegemony translated into a policy of aggressive unilateralism and the abandonment of multilateral organizations, treaties, and economic pacts through which the United States had dominated the world. It was neoconservatism on steroids combined with Trump’s transactional approach to deal making. This marked a break with the bipartisan strategy of liberal or benevolent hegemony that the political class had pursued since the Cold War. Moreover, the multicultural and feminist imperialism of the post–Cold War era was replaced by white nationalism. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 526

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the MOC thread: Kumar frames the liberal-versus-illiberal shift as a change in governing form, not in the underlying imperial project. — connects to: Post-Cold War US foreign policy was bipartisan and aimed at capitalist world integration; Imperial ethnocratic racism spanned the pre-Trump bipartisan consensus; Trump’s foreign policy swapped liberal for illiberal hegemony while keeping empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 514 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Trump replaced liberal benevolent hegemony with unilateral illiberal hegemony. #corroborates (0.92)
• Trump-era foreign policy replaced benevolent multilateral hegemony with aggressive unilateralism and white nationalism #corroborates (0.90)
• Trump’s nationalism contradicted US multilateral hegemony strategy but kept its coercive core. #corroborates (0.90)
• Liberal hegemonic soft power rhetoric masked imperial ethnocentric racism. #corroborates (0.85)
• Trump replaced global economic stewardship with nationalist unilateralism yet kept MENA hegemony #corroborates (0.85)
• Post-Cold War US empire rebranded military force as benevolent multicultural intervention #corroborates (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 403