President Donald Trump didn’t ask Congress’ permission to take military action against Venezuela and haul away the South American nation’s president to stand trial in the United States.

He also, importantly, didn’t ask your permission. There was no effort to garner or gauge public support for this likely illegal endeavor. You and I and all U.S. citizens were simply told, as Trump said Jan. 3, that America is going to run Venezuela for a while.

“We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said in the wake of the attack.

Well, that’s just super. I didn’t ask for this. I never heard anybody ask for this. In fact, I doubt many, if any, Americans voted for Trump because they wanted regime change in a country they’d struggle to locate on a map.

The president just up and did it, and still hasn’t provided a sound justification as to how it makes our lives better in a moment when millions of Americans are seeing........

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