Manifest destiny is a call to domination and erasure, a justification for the nation’s most brutal expansions. And it’s the message Trump led with on the first day of his second term.

Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century belief in the United States that Americans were destined by divine providence to expand ...

And yet, here we are, in a time when a cursory glance of the day’s news calls that ideology of Manifest Destiny to mind: The Gulf of America. Canada, the would-be 51st state. The Panama Canal ...