The Joke The Empire Tells Itself

Trump’s Marco Rubio-Cuba Remark Wasn’t Just Absurd. It Was Monroe Doctrine Thinking With the Snark Left In.

Donald Trump did not issue a formal policy paper when he mused about Marco Rubio becoming “president of Cuba.” He did something more revealing. He treated the idea as if it were natural enough to joke about, then followed it with talk of a possible “friendly takeover” of Cuba, as though the sovereignty of a neighboring nation were just another subject f…