Glenn Beck nailed it: when the media screams “regime change” they point to Venezuela, but the real plan President Trump and his allies are executing is far bigger — a wholesale reclaiming of American sovereignty from the unelected administrative class that has run Washington for decades. Beck argues that this is not adventurism but restoration: returning power to the people by stripping permanent bureaucrats of their unaccountable fiefdoms and making elected officials actually in charge again.
At the same time, the administration has shown it will use hard power where necessary to defend the homeland, authorizing covert action inside Venezuela and a series of lethal maritime strikes against vessels the Pentagon and White House say were tied to narco-terror networks. Those operations — and the broader naval buildup in the Caribbean — are not theater; they are a muscular effort to choke the flow of fentanyl and violent cartel networks that have been killing Americans for years.
Patriots understand that protecting the border and stopping the poison trade are foundational to any America First agenda, and the President is treating the threats accordingly. Critics will howl about international law and messy optics, but the reality is simple: when other nations’ corruption and criminal cartels send death into our towns, a Commander in Chief who puts American lives first must act decisively to stop it.
What the left and the legacy press refuse to see is how these foreign actions dovetail with an internal program to dismantle the administrative state and re-empower voters and their representatives. Glenn Beck has repeatedly framed this as a constitutional fight — not against civil servants, but against a permanent political class that treats elections as mere pageantry while policy is run by career insiders and distant bureaucrats. That is the real “regime” conservatives want to change.
Legal scholars and human-rights groups will wag fingers and cry foul, and Democrats will weaponize every controversy to defend the status quo, but their indignation is often a cover for protecting power. The debates about maritime law and rules of engagement are serious and should be vetted, yet they cannot be used as a blanket excuse to handcuff an administration determined to end the flow of drugs and the influence of hostile actors in our hemisphere.
Hardworking Americans don’t want lectures from elites or sanctimonious pundits — they want results: safer streets, secure borders, and a government that answers to them, not the other way around. If President Trump’s playbook combines targeted external pressure with a domestic campaign to dismantle the administrative chokehold on our republic, then yes, that’s regime change worth fighting for — and it’s the kind of bold, unapologetic leadership this country desperately needs.
