Democrats: Interventions are Fine, Just Make Them Bipartisan
The 'nuance is dead' crowd in the Democratic party, as quoted by Axios, wish their colleagues would just applaud Trump's swift, unconstitutional 'raid' to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This manufactured outrage over 'weakness' conveniently overlooks decades of bipartisan U.S. interventionism in Latin America, from Chile to Nicaragua, consistently destabilizing democracies for
corporate interests. What's one more 'regime change operation' (which is what we called it before it became 'national security') to add to the trophy case, right? These 'vulnerable' Democrats want to condemn Maduro, not the fact that the U.S. just unilaterally 'struck several military targets' in a sovereign nation. The issue isn't if we intervene, it's that Trump might have done it without Big
Tent Democrat approval. One might wonder if their definition of 'democracy abroad' only applies to countries that don't nationalize their oil or embrace socialist policies opposed by U.S. capital. The only thing 'weak' here is the collective memory of history, and the supposed commitment to international law.