The New American By Selwyn Duke
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,” goes the paraphrase of G.K. Chesterton, “but because he loves what is behind him.” This comes to mind when pondering the Democrats’ now long-standing electoral strategy: Hate President Donald Trump.
Then hate him some more.
Then keep hating him — with the passion of a thousand burning suns — until, hopefully, most other Americans join your hate-fest.
But as the Democrats try turning Trump into our Emmanuel Goldstein (from 1984), they’re left “without a plan of their own,” writes one commentator. It “often makes them look like hypocrites,” too.
What? I Said That?!
Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings noted last year that Trump has a superpower. He can get Democrats to oppose anything just by coming out for it. The aforementioned commentator, Ingrid Jacques, provides a fresh example of this, too: The capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro. Oh, she acknowledges, writing at USA Today, that opinions on the wisdom and rectitude of the arrest vary — among individuals. Yet with the Democrats they vary within the same individual. As Jacques writes, 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, chastised Trump for not ending the Maduro regime: “The president brags about his Venezuela policy? Give us a break. He hasn’t brought an end to the Maduro regime.”
In October 2020, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut quipped on social media: “The best thing that ever happened to Nicolas Maduro was Donald Trump. Trump’s Venezuela policy has been a total disaster, strengthening Maduro’s grip on power and frittering away any chance at a democratic transition.”
And then, not to be left out, then-candidate Joe Biden posted this to social media in June 2020: “Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro. As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy.”
Now that Trump has taken decisive action, Democratic politicians seem to have forgotten how horrible they once thought Maduro was.
Note, too, that the Biden administration itself increased the bounty on Maduro’s head to $25 million.
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