You can't run an empire by republican rules

You can not yoke a government whose fundamental maxim is that of liberty to a government whose first law is that of force and hope to preserve the former. -- Sen. William Borah, November 19, 1919

An older Znet history article which mentions how the Henry Cabot Lodge Republicans, because they wanted an Empire, and the Western Republicans because they were true conservative isolationists, kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations.

America has been taken over by the imperial Republicans.