{"id":7603,"date":"2026-01-29T02:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:02:23","slug":"opinion-how-trump-is-trying-to-recast-american-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7603","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | How Trump Is Trying to Recast American Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"site-content\">\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: <!-- -->How Trump Is Trying to Recast American Power<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"video-header\">\n<div class=\"css-1g7y0i5 e1drnplw0\"><button tabindex=\"100\" class=\"css-1rtlxy\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"close\"><svg width=\"60\" height=\"60\" viewbox=\"0 0 60 60\" fill=\"none\"><circle cx=\"30\" cy=\"30\" r=\"30\" fill=\"white\" fill-opacity=\"0.9\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M38.4844 20.1006L39.8986 21.5148L21.5138 39.8996L20.0996 38.4854L38.4844 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5156 20.1006L20.1014 21.5148L38.4862 39.8996L39.9004 38.4854L21.5156 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-18ow4sz e1drnplw2\">\n<div aria-labelledby=\"modal-title\" role=\"region\">\n<header class=\"css-1bzlfz\">\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"css-1igvuto\"><span>Back<\/span><\/button><\/header>\n<div class=\"css-uzyn7p\">\n<div class=\"css-1vxywau\">\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">How Trump Is Trying to Recast American Power<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">What do American power and Facebook have in common? Henry Farrell, an international relations scholar, explains on \u201cThe Ezra Klein Show.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<dl class=\"css-p98d0w\">\n<dt class=\"css-xx7kwh\"\/>\n<dd class=\"css-4gvq6l\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">You\u2019ve called what we\u2019re doing the [EXPLETIVE] of American power. Tell me about that idea. OK, so this is a term which we are taking very directly from Cory Doctorow. And so he uses this to talk about the way in which the platform economy works. Over time the platform has these incentives to get [EXPLETIVE] and [EXPLETIVE] and [EXPLETIVE] for the user. So our argument is that if you look at the ways in which United States power and United States hegemony works, it\u2019s kind of like a similar system, that is, we are seeing the increased [EXPLETIVE] of all of these platforms that the United States provides that the world relies on. So the dollar clearing system, we\u2019ve already talked about \u2014 the way in which the U.S. is able to use the dollar in order to leverage its advantage against other countries. We can also think about weapon systems as being very similar. Once you buy, for example, a fifth-generation fighter aircraft, you are not just buying the aircraft. You\u2019re buying into this extensive platform, which you need to support the aircraft to provide the information that allows you to figure out where to target things, all of these other bits and pieces, and the United States can possibly shut that off. So I think that the United States did not set this up as a deliberate kind of honey trap. This is not a world in which the United States decided: We are going to pull everybody in. And then, once we pull everybody in, we are going to figure out ways to screw the maximum amount of money and tribute out of them that we possibly can. So I think \u2014 but I do think that this very much is the way in which Trump and the people around him view the world. And I kind of feel like the last year or so, Donald Trump has been doing everything he can possibly to prove that it is a tribute system and to try and figure that out.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"css-jgknzh\">\n<div class=\"css-1gn3fip\">\n<div class=\"css-vabf4\">\n<div class=\"css-1331l0f\"><nyt-betamax class=\"css-wkvudm\"><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/player-0.2.19-CnxAEwcy.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><nyt-betamax-cover><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/cover-0.2.19-eTrf0IGY.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><nyt-betamax-poster><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/poster-0.2.19-BdueiXaE.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\" sizes=\"(width &lt; 740px) 95vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-master180.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 180w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-blog225.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 225w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-popup.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 282w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-slide.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 282w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-master315.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 315w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-tmagSF.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 362w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-blog427.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 427w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-blog480.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 480w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-master495.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 495w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-blog533.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 533w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 576w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-tmagArticle.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 592w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-articleLarge.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 600w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-master675.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 675w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-master768.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 768w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-master1050.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 1050w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/01\/27\/arts\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01\/EKS_FARRELL_CLIP01_Thumb01-superJumbo.jpg?auto=webp&amp;quality=75 1080w\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/><\/template><\/nyt-betamax-poster><\/nyt-betamax-cover><nyt-betamax-overlay-controls><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/overlay-controls-0.2.19-DTyJF-yz.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/scrubber-0.2.19-allGBXvP.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><\/nyt-betamax-overlay-controls><nyt-betamax-ads><template shadowrootmode=\"open\" slotassignment=\"named\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video-static\/betamax\/ads-0.2.19-C_YVzzUG.css\" crossorigin=\"\"\/><\/template><\/nyt-betamax-ads><\/nyt-betamax><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1r2245g\"><span class=\"css-hple31\">What do American power and Facebook have in common? 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