[The Democrats] need to find a campaign issue which will resonate beyond their liberal-metropolitan heartlands before the midterm elections in the fall of 2026.
Machado’s Nobel Prize is even more significant in light of recent U.S. military actions near Venezuela...A Nobel Prize that rewards peace should be viewed as a warning against military overreach.
Contempt for him is so great that, in this country, Trump is conceded little, and his successes are ignored. One of them is the peace plan for the Gaza Strip.
One side talks about the socialists, the other about the rubes. In both cases, it is often an instance of the same fractious contempt and deep-seated enmity.