The smug, self-righteous media finally got a taste of its own medicine this week when Secretary of State Marco Rubio called out the double standard on Venezuela. Rubio reminded Americans that allegations tying Nicolás Maduro’s regime to large-scale narcotics trafficking were not new — what changed was that President Trump moved to do something about it.
Washington followed words with action by formally moving to classify the so-called “Cartel de los Soles” as a foreign terrorist organization, a step Rubio announced as part of a broader strategy to choke off the narco-cash that props up Maduro’s cronies. This was not a stunt; it was a practical legal tool to squeeze the regime and protect American communities from drugs flooding our streets.
Meanwhile the Pentagon and the Trump administration have put real pressure on the problem, beefing up naval and air assets in the Caribbean and taking kinetic action against vessels tied to trafficking networks. For years the coastal routes out of Venezuela were a corridor for cartel money and misery; after hollow talk and inaction from the coastal elites and cable news cheerleaders, the White House finally sent forces to stop it.
Yet the same outlets that shrugged when Maduro’s corruption and alleged narco-links were an inconvenient truth suddenly discovered conscience the moment President Trump escalated. That’s hypocrisy plain and simple — the left-wing press prefers lectures to results and virtue-signaling to victory. When policy costs votes, they howl; when it saves lives, they find reasons to complain.
Patriots know there’s no glory in talking while our towns are ground down by fentanyl and cartel violence. Rubio and the administration are right to wield every lawful tool to target narco-networks embedded in hostile regimes, and Americans should be thankful that somebody in Washington has the guts to act where pundits only posture. If the media refuses to cover the facts, then the American people still have the vote, the courts, and a president willing to defend them.
Hardworking citizens should demand that our leaders keep focusing on results — not press cycles. Call out the hypocrisy, support effective action against those who profit from our national decline, and don’t let the gatekeepers pretend that political correctness equals patriotism. This is about protecting families, restoring law and order, and holding foreign tyrants accountable for the blood they sell onto our streets.
