Outside the Beltway

(While murdering people without due process because of [checks notes] drugs.)

Bret Stephens wants to oust Maduro in Venezuela.

Support is low, but opposition is tepid.

It’s not an unprecedented stance.

What could possibly go wrong?

“What are they going to do? Say, ‘Gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’”

I guess if we fail to vaporize you, you get treated like a criminial.

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

The obvious has been made expllicit.

What democratic backsliding looks like.

It is unusual and a problem.

The newest Executive Order.

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

Can we say the administration is putting people in camps?

We are at least on the precipice.

The honey badger strikes again.

Nunes and Grinell.

Trump’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Plus some thoughts on mass deportation.

Closing the barn door after the horse has left.

This time: Aurora, CO.

And proof of Trump’s media diet.

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

Cruelty with compound interest.

A well-intentioned but likely doomed effort.

Force and order.

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

A real example of American exceptionalism.

Because I really do need to close some of these tabs.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

The Biden admin is about to take a demilitarized group off the terrorist list and some people aren’t happy about it.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

The law and justice are frequently not the same thing.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

A shameful farce continues to unfold.

The pandemic is having serious effects in the region, and they will persist for some time.

Some explosive charges in the former National Security Advisor’s book.

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.