“Two, fraudulent elections, and even the perceptions of fraudulent elections matter even more....
Lesson: Fraudulent, or at least rigged, elections lead to even more horrible consequences than legal elections and once they happen, there is no return. Once fraud became the order of the day, government grew even more unaccountable and tyrannical.
Three, immigration matters...
Four: Crime matters...
Five: Chavez may have been a failure, but it didn’t matter, because his regime was forever...
Does that hold lessons for us? In the era of Joe Biden, eerily so. The international left, and the left in the U.S. has long admired the Chavez model under the rubric of helping the people, but that Chavez model is Cuba in a more developed form. The handouts are long gone and the people are now fleeing. Will that same model be replicated here?
Suddenly, Venezuela’s history looks pretty relevant.”
Those who will steal elections will steal everything else.
It is just that basic.
“Suddenly, Venezuela’s history looks pretty relevant.”
Obviously DemocRATS are running the Hugo Chavez playbook.