Here we are. It’s 2026. 

The midterm elections are just 10 months away. 

And Democrats seem just as clueless as always. Their constant shrieking over everything President Donald Trump does (or doesn’t do) leaves them without a plan of their own – and often makes them look like hypocrites. 

Case in point: the Trump administration’s recent bold move to capture Venezuelan dictator (“President”) Nicolás Maduro and hold him to account. 

Whether you like how Trump carried out the operation, what shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge is that Maduro terrorized his citizens and made a mockery of democracy by rigging his country’s elections. Venezuelans in the United States and around the world are celebrating what Trump did.

It wasn’t long ago that many top Democrats criticized Trump for not taking strong enough action against Maduro.

In 2020, for example, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York,

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