He’s not a dictator. He’s elected. Some opposition candidates boycotted the 2018 election. Others didn’t — defying Trump admin’s threat of sanctions on them. (https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-03-03/new-evidence-the-trump-administration-is-meddling-in-venezuelas-elections?context=amp …) If Trump is backing off regime change, progressives should welcome it, not malign it.
The fact that someone is “elected” does not mean they’re not a dictator. Hitler was democratically elected.
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This is offensive. You're insulting not just the memory of Nazi victims but also Maduro's millions of supporters -- who come from Venezuela's poor majority and who have elected Chavez-Maduro in multiple elections dating back 20 years.
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For a supposed dictator, Maduro is a pretty bad one: I went to a protest in Caracas where Juan Guaido -- a US puppet backed by Trump, Bolton, Abrams, Pompeo & other right-wingers you're giving progressive cover to -- led thousands of people calling Maduro a "motherfucker."
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The US opposing an elected leader also does not make that leader a dictator
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Of course it doesn’t. Nor did I say it did. It’s not the job of the US to interfere there, or anywhere for that matter. Any projection onto me that I’m saying it does is completely false. I simply made a comment about Trump’s attraction to strongmen. Wish I hadn’t but here we are
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So why is it fine for Guaido to be in charge?
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I didn’t say it was.
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Leaving aside your absurd comparison of a socialist leader besieged by sadistic US economic warfare & destabilization plots to Hitler, Hitler was not elected. He was appointed chancellor through a backroom deal then received emergency powers after the Reichstag fire.
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Good to know. If I put my mind to it I might be able to compose a few paragraphs that are written as well as Aaron and Max. Lockdown goals!
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Can you explain what makes Maduro a dictator? The US calls him that, but he doesn’t behave as a dictator at all. The man the US openly backs to overthrow Maduro walks around Venezuela freely organizing coups. Doesn’t get much freer than that
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Considering no one really cared about Venezuela before we decided to invade, you're not going to get a genuine answer. Just another list a talking points. If he was such a brutal dictator then we would constantly be having this conversation as opposed to just recently.
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