RW Media Pushes Venezuela Regime Change As A Cakewalk

This week, The Miami Herald reported that the Trump administration “has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment.” Although the stated excuse is drug smuggling, it’s pretty clear toppling Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is at least a major part of the goal.

Apparently, the chickenhawks on the right have shrugged off the horrific costs and quagmire of the Iraq war, the fact that President Barack Obama was elected in large part because he opposed it, and the fact that Donald Trump leveraged his (totally fake) opposition to it as an advantage over his Republican rivals in the 2016 primaries.

So, while Shadow President Stephen Miller salivates for more killing of Venezuelans, right-wing media are doing their best to persuade their audiences that they should support military action in Venezuela, even as the U.S. government eliminates food assistance for needy Americans and destroys their health insurance here at home.

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