Trump’s move against Maduro is wildly popular among Latin Americans, including Venezuelans |
Last week, we highlighted the political cynicism and incoherence expressed by many Democrats after President Donald Trump ordered a daring and successful raid by U.S. special forces to capture and exfiltrate erstwhile Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. The socialist strongman and his wife now sit in American jail cells as they await trial on a host of criminal charges.
In executing this mission, the Trump administration brought to justice a man so corrupt, destructive, and harmful to U.S. interests that the Biden administration offered a $25 million reward for information that would lead to his arrest. Biden’s successor cut out the middleman and directly facilitated the arrest, yet many members of Biden’s political party, including some who’d been harshly critical of Maduro and had previously demanded that Trump be tougher on Maduro, decided that they were upset about this development anyway. Tribal politics and partisanship, as they say, are a hell of a........