The Ridiculous Donroe Doctrine, Trump Imagines Himself Emperor Of The Americas, January Is Going To Be A Very Consequential MonthTomorrow is the 5th anniversary the insurrection Trump launched against the United States of America and his assault on CongressMorning all. There is a lot happening today. Will try to get to it all….. As we’ve been discussing January is going to be a very consequential month in American politics, and potentially a very hard one for Trump and MAGA. The Congress begins to return today from its Holiday break. Here’s what I wrote to you a few days ago:
Taken together, it’s all a very powerful rationale for creating a grand diversion, waging the dog, doing a Hail Mary to get his terrible poll numbers up and restore his STRENGTH and MANHOOD, and re-asserting control over his fraying Congressional coalition. Yesterday we reviewed the first post-invasion poll that showed Trump with only 34% support for the US running Venezuela after the seizure of Maduro. Today we have a new WaPo poll that dives a little deeper. Some highlights, and a caution for the flood of polls we are likely to receive in the coming days - the wordings of the questions clearly matter right now. 40%-42% - Approve/Disapprove - Do you approve or disapprove of the United States having sent its military forces into Venezuela to capture Maduro? 37%-63% - Appropriate/Inappropriate - Was it appropriate for Trump to order the operation on his own, or should it have required approval from Congress? 25%-45% - Support/Oppose - Would you support or oppose the U.S. taking control of Venezuela and choosing a new government for the country? 6%-94% - The US/The Venezuelan People - In your opinion, who should decide the future leadership of Venezuela? In this poll the country is pretty split on the capture of Maduro, but is firmly against Trump acting without Congress’ approval, and there is currently very little support for Trump taking control of Venezuela and deciding who will lead it. Last night, once again, Trump asserted that he was in fact was running Venezuela now, that he was it’s leader: In this same “gaggle” returning to DC on Air Force One the madman running our country also threatened: What we cannot forget for one moment in all this is that Trump is now acting as if law, or the very concept of law, does not exist. He is acting outside and in violation of the Constitution, domestic American law, and the oath he took; and outside and in violation of the UN Charter, well established international law, and Senate ratified treaties with other nations. There is only him. He can do whatever he wants. L’Etat, C’est Moi. An Uber Man. Along with MBS, Putin, and Xi, one of the rulers of the world, anything, anything but an American President. As Ruth Ben-Ghiat told us a few weeks ago in our remarkable conversation, Both Sane and Insane, men like Trump see everything as theirs - the country, Congress, the Supreme Court, the wealth of the nation, companies, women’s bodies, the physical Capital itself, and now all of the Americas - all of it - as his. Yes, Trump has gone completely mad. As many others have commented in recent days today we will see a foreign leader being tried for crimes committed under American law, while our own laws prevent our leader - a serial criminal, 34 times felon, who has been committing War Crimes, High Crimes, and trampling over domestic and international law - from facing American justice for the outrageous crimes he is committing daily. After initial elation Venezuelan emigres in the US are starting to wonder whether their nation is actually being liberated. An excerpt from this front-page Miami Herald story cited above:
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Here is the home page of the Miami Herald right now: The Washington Post is reporting this morning that Trump has dismissed the rightful winners of the 2024 election in part because Maria Corina Machado did not turn down the Nobel Peace Prize and give it to him (gift link, remarkable reporting):
I also think the idea of restoring the rightfully elected leader due to an authoritarian rigging of an election just doesn’t sit well with Trump. Democracy just isn’t his thing, after all. And so here we are - Trump furthering lawless autocracies, not democracy; seizing a nation in violation of the UN Charter and our Constitution to strip it of its oil and other resources; and threatening to invade other nations, including our 2nd largest trading partner, Mexico, and Denmark/Europe/NATO, because of this new ludicrous “Donroe Doctrine” has magically crowned him Emperor (Caudillo?) of the Americas. Here’s what I wrote to you a few days ago in my post, Trump’s Staggering Betrayal Of The Great American Project:
With that reminder that we got yesterday that Putin was floating a Ukraine for Venezuela swap to Trump back in 2019, it is reasonable to assume that this entire traitorous, idiotic, ridiculous new NSS strategy that carves up the world, makes Trump the Emperor of the Americas, dangerously turns America from a global to a regional power was something Putin and the Russians worked hard to sell to Trump and his allies over the past six years. Let us recall what Jeffrey Epstein wrote back in 2018 - a year before that first mention of a Ukraine for Venezuela swap - about the advice he gave to Putin’s team about how they should approach Trump:
Now, Let’s Get To Work People!I’m excited to announce that in the last few days of 2025 we hit our most important remaining fundraising goals - $50,000 for our four intrepid House candidates, and $250,000 for the Audacious Expansion Fund - amazing work everyone! As you will see we’ve set new goals for those two critical efforts…. Winning The Midterms - Support Our Candidates
Expanding The Senate and Electoral College Maps, Winning In Red States and Red Places (2026-2032)
This recent post recapped our our very productive year together. In three new essays (here, here, here) I look forward to next year and discuss how one of the ways we win the 2026 midterms is by providing early support to our candidates and parties to allow them to staff up, be loud, define the terms of the debate now, before the inevitable onslaught on AI slop, Russian disinfo, and Trumpian lies funded through bribes and corruption wash across the land. The midterms could be won or lost in these next few months - not in the fall of 2026 - and we need be fighting now with everything we got. Winning The Big Arguments With Trump, Defend Our Democracy - We have two recommended actions today: 1 - Call Your Senators and Member Of The House And Demand They Act Upon Our Five-Part Agenda - We need to be loud people, very, very loud and make the case for our now five part agenda:
2 - Celebrate America, Our Constitution, Our 250th Birthday By Bringing Our Resolutions Project To Your Community - This July 4th America celebrates it’s 250th birthday. We need to make this holiday, a celebration of our Declaration Of Independence from a mad king, our day, and not allow it to become his. One way we can do this is by bringing our Resolutions Project to your community or state. Imagine if by July 4th of next year a large number of towns, counties and states had passed formal resolutions, in the spirit of our Declaration of Independence, defending our Constitution and condemning the “injuries,” “abuses,” and “usurpations” of our mad king. For as our Founders wrote in the Declaration:
So far Hopium members have introduced or passed resolutions in 85 communities in 23 states. In the coming days we will be convening to discuss how to bring this campaign to more places and start planning to Own The Fourth next year. Finally, please self-report your activities to our daily paid subscriber chat. These reports help inspire all of us to do more and fight harder! Keep working hard everyone. We had a lot of wins in 2025, but all understand our most important work lies ahead - Simon You're currently a free subscriber to Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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