It was a success. So the Left hates it.

President Donald Trump listens as he was speaking with reporters while in flight on Air Force One, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, as returning to Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

If bad people denounce you, chances are you’re doing something right. With that in mind, let’s break down Donald Trump’s weekend defenestration of Nicolás Maduro – the corrupt, murderous, and now former president of the failed state of Venezuela.

In an operation that had been planned for months, U.S. Army Delta Force commandos fell out of the sky in Caracas, penetrated the fortress home of Maduro, grabbed that murderous thug and his complicit wife, and then brought them to New York City to face justice.

The operation was a master class in military logistics and multi-unit interoperability. More than 150 aircraft, including F-22s, F-35s, B-1 bombers and drones, together with the 160^th Special Operations Aviation Regiment providing helicopter insertion, all worked together in a mission dubbed, “Operation Absolute Resolve.”

The dark-of-the-night mission was carried out with surgical precision and with only a couple of minor U.S. casualties. If your name happens to be Vladimir Putin or Xi Jingping, it was an eye-opening demonstration of American military prowess, organization, technical superiority, and leadership.

The stunning success of the operation has the American Left, along with the leaders of the worst countries on the planet, in a tizzy. Cuba, Iran, China, Russia, Mexico, and Columbia are all incensed and are busy writing strongly worded letters to the United Nations.

The likes of Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, AOC and Elizabeth Warren are tripping over their own feet to get in front of a camera to call Donald Trump a war criminal or Hitler or something. Joining them in hyperventilating outrage is the legacy media together with the rest of the Trump hating, self-loathing Left.

What’s giving our homegrown lefties the vapors is the fact that American strength offends their sensibilities. Most of the people in the heartland are filled with pride when American military forces succeed in a bold operation. But American military success is too alpha male macho for our coastal liberal elites. Every moment spent basking in the glow of clear, unmistakable success in ridding the world of a truly bad guy is time not spent in introspective self-flagellation over slavery and land appropriation and all the rest of American original sin and irredeemable flaws as now taught in our top universities.

It’s much more straightforward for the Iran, China, Russia, et.al. crowd. They will engage in any propaganda effort they can think of to delegitimize and politically neutralize a military force that they understand could fall out of the sky on them if they go too far in their malign strategic ambitions. It’s not lost on Xi Jinping that the air defense systems that he provided to Venezuela proved utterly useless when the U.S. Army’s Delta Force came calling. Give the despots credit. Their objections are at least rational.

Not so for the crazy loon lefties that now dominate our beloved Democratic Party. It’s not at all rational for them. It’s pure emotion. In their latte and Chardonnay-soaked brains they just hate the very idea of the United States as the world’s alpha dog.