No matter how much Maduro deserved to be replaced, we should ALL be concerned about HOW it was done.

 The operation in Venezuela bypassed every mechanism normally used to legitimize American power abroad — judicial process, international authorization, collective defense, congressional consent. The United States acted alone, using lethal military power inside another sovereign state. Whatever language is used to describe it — counter-narcotics, stabilization, transition — this was an act of war, undertaken without the constitutional mechanisms designed to restrain exactly this kind of unilateral executive action.

What happened this weekend circumvented all of that. Congress was not asked to deliberate. It was treated as irrelevant, rather than as a co-equal branch entrusted with the gravest decision a republic can make.

This is how dictators act, NOT US presidents…..until now.

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