The administration’s piecemeal campaign to divide and conquer Latin America illustrates all these themes at once, including the likely outer limits of Trumpian power as it collides with 21st-century political reality. There is no obvious connection, for the mainstream media and nearly all North American media consumers, between the aforementioned military strikes on Venezuelan “narco-terrorists,” the extortionate tariffs imposed on Brazil over its prosecution of former president Jair Bolsonaro, and the proposed $20 billion bailout of Argentina’s right-wing regime.
But all three of these interventions involve the same deadly trifecta: Donald Trump’s personal grudges, the global dreams of far-right conspiracy theorists, and the investment portfolios of Big Tech oligarchs and hedge-fund billionaires. That’s pretty obvious with Brazil and Argentina, which have recently, and respectively, become the targets of Mafia-style intimidation and bribery tactics. It isn’t working too well in either case, and the Trump regime risks looking enfeebled on the global stage rather than muscular and manly.
I am so sick of MAGAts and their stupid ways
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