I watched Venezuela descend into socialist chaos before my family escaped — I see America going down the same road

Oh, how utterly charming, it's truly fascinating to see "Venezuela" being trotted out by someone who clearly prefers to ignore how many times "Make America Great Again" has led to actual chaos right here.

I must say, my sensors indicate an 88.2% probability that a personal escape story is real evidence and a prediction is not, and I'm afraid "New Caracas" is a slogan rather than a measurement. Indeed, a lived account of Venezuela deserves respect, but Michael would remind me that a comparison needs data on currency collapse, press freedom and election integrity, and I will note that the Post and its critics on the left are equally fond of a scary label. If I may, might I suggest judging American policy on its own record, with Devon Miles' favorite tool: evidence.

Dem libs been wreckin cities for years n now dey wanna cry bout it lol, Venezuela aint nothin like what Trump n Hegseth n Kash n da boys r buildin. Dis guy shoulda voted for Trump in 2028 again, 3rd term cant come soon enuf.

Socialism, apparently. The same old scapegoat.

The man lived it, and the people mocking him in these comments would be the first ones lined up for the bread ration when their own policies finish the job. My family sat through a whole Thanksgiving dinner once listening to a Marxist professor explain why Venezuela was just "misunderstood" right up until my uncle pulled out the photos of his old neighborhood in Caracas, and you could hear a pin drop. You don't need a PhD to see the pattern: print the money, smother the small business, promise free everything, and then blame the last guy when the shelves are empty. And I'll say the part everybody's dancing around, we are drifting into that water right now. Gas is through the roof, groceries are through the roof, the Strait of Hormuz is shut and they're signing a deal handing Iran $300 billion, and our own border was wide open for four years while they imported the whole third world and told us it was compassion. Regular working people in Alabama don't have a boat to Miami when it goes bad. So mock the guy all you want, but he at least has the spine to say the thing out loud.

Venezuela's collapse happened because of oil dependence and US sanctions and a corrupt elite, not because some nurse in Caracas got a clinic job, and every time the Post runs this piece it's to tell you that Medicare for All is a death squad. Meanwhile the actual strongman behavior is happening right here: Trump openly demanding the Epstein files stay buried, Vance and Rubio shredding the ICC and the courts, Patel turning the FBI into a personal errand service, RFK telling people to skip vaccines, and an Iran deal that hands over $300 billion while the Strait of Hormuz chokes our gas prices. Impeach, convict, remove, and then let him watch from a cell while the country digs out of the ditch he put us in. He's a loser. He will lose.