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Senator Rick Scott’s recent media run — including blunt interviews that echoed across conservative networks — is a welcome reminder that America’s leaders should stop whispering and start speaking plainly about the tyrant in Caracas. Scott has repeatedly warned that Nicolás Maduro’s grip on power is weakening and that he should be shown the door, a message many patriotic Americans want the president to deliver without equivocation.
This is not empty rhetoric. Scott and other Republicans have pushed concrete measures to hold Maduro accountable, from tough sanctions to legislation designed to increase pressure on the narco-regime and even expand rewards for information leading to his arrest. Those proposals are rooted in the reality that Maduro’s regime has trafficked in corruption and violence for years, and they deserve full bipartisan backing.
President Trump himself has signaled he understands the leverage America holds, telling reporters that Maduro has offered “everything” to stay in power — a confession that should make clear who’s desperate and who holds the cards. Now is the time for America to use that leverage to demand real change, not trade away influence for hollow promises from a criminal regime.
Conservatives who love liberty should applaud strong language and stronger action. The years of appeasement and soft-handed diplomacy from the left have only emboldened dictators and created a migration and drug-trafficking crisis that bleeds into our communities. It’s patriotic to insist that our government protects Americans first and stands unapologetically with freedom-seeking Venezuelans.
If President Trump picks up the phone and tells Maduro to get out of Venezuela, he would be speaking for millions of hardworking Americans who have watched socialism ruin a once-prosperous country. That kind of clarity — combined with targeted pressure and international isolation of the regime — gives Venezuelans the best chance of reclaiming their country without an open-ended U.S. occupation.
Congress should step up, too, and back measures that take Maduro’s money and muscle away while supporting the Venezuelan people’s brave struggle for freedom. Republicans must stop treating foreign policy as a side show and act like the party that restored American strength and pride; anything less would be a betrayal of our values and of the millions suffering under tyranny.
