The U.S. administration’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and President Donald Trump’s plans to open that country’s oil reserves to major energy companies has sparked a resurgence of pro-colonialist sentiment among some prominent figures inside the White House and the broader MAGA political movement.
“Not long after World War II the West dissolved its empires and colonies and began sending colossal sums of taxpayer-funded aid to these former territories (despite have already made them far wealthier and more successful),” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, one of the aides Trump has tasked with overseeing the Venezuelan government, wrote on X the day after American forces raided Maduro’s compound and brought him to the U.S. for trial on a series of charges.
“The West opened its borders, a kind of reverse colonization, providing welfare and thus remittances, while extending to these newcomers and their families not only the full franchise but preferential legal and financial treatment over the native citizenry,” Miller wrote. “The neoliberal experiment, at its core, has been a long self-punishment of the places and peoples that built the modern world.”
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So far, the vision Trump has laid out for Venezuela — America exercising control over the country’s government from afar while rebuilding its oil infrastructure — hews closer to imperialism than colonialism. The latter would involve sending settlers to Venezuela to fundamentally alter its politics, its institutions and its culture.
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“Colonization is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world, and the only reason most don’t know this is because they were educated by communists who hate Western civilization,” Jesse Kelly, a right-wing broadcaster, wrote on X on Jan. 4.
Elon Musk, a close ally of the president, retweeted a lengthy X post from conservative commentator Lauren Chen that stopped short of endorsing colonialism but argued for a reinterpretation of its effects on countries subjected to it.
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