One doesn’t hear much about Nicolas Maduro these days. Nor his wife, whom the special forces team curiously took out of Venezuela into U.S. custody at the same time as don Nicolas. It seems it was more of an extraction than an arrest. The U.S. saved Maduro from retribution by the various cartels who were going to slit his throat sooner or later. He had made deals with all of them and was wetting his beak every which way and ultimately, he could not serve nor control them all.

Donald Trump can certainly look to Nicolas Maduro as one of the few people in the world with a hairdo worse than his own, but Trump might be looking for an extraction about now much like Maduro’s. In retrospect it is easy to see that Trump has been a dead man walking from the beginning of this term.
The Big Beautiful Bill was the first sign. The one thing it accomplished was deportations. The rest was all pork, like every other bill for the past 50 years that has been passed out of regular order. Now Trump has caved on that for good simply to get lines moving better at the airport.
Just in the last few days Trump has declared victory in Iran despite no one’s surrendering and he knocked the wind out of Robert Kennedy’s health system reforms by issuing an executive order giving liability protection to purveyors of glyphosate. There have been no prosecutions of individuals from the Biden administration who clearly broke the law. No prosecutions of people clearly implicated in the Epstein files, even with still partial disclosure. And no systemic reform to wipe out election fraud.
So… it is clear we have been in the postmortem period for Trump all along. If winning is everything to the Trump family, saving face is a close second, so the spin will be intense and a casual observer may not notice.
But failing an act of God, the party formerly know as MAGA is going to get creamed in the midterms this November. Batten the hatches. Hide your valuables and children. Keep your nose clean. And prepare for the Anschluss. Because it’s not just coming, it’s already started.
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