🇺🇸 President Donald Trump opened his second term with sudden moves to shake up the Western hemisphere — vowing to take back the Panama Canal, threatening tariffs on American neighbors and demanding the repatriation of undocumented migrants.

It’s up to Mauricio Claver-Carone to work out the details.

The role of Trump’s regional enforcer is a natural one for the Miami native.

“This is a non-imperialistic expansionism,” he said, even as he went on to hint that the administration would get “very creative” in pushing change inside Cuba 🇨🇺.

As for Trump’s pledge to seize the Panama Canal 🇵🇦, Claver-Carone expressed little interest in sending in the Marines. Instead, he talked of sending in the Army Corps of Engineers to help its current owners “make the Panama Canal great again.”

Of course, his offer came with a catch: “We get a piece of it.”

From Politico, an interview with Trump’s special envoy for Latin America.

For context MoveOn and Indivisible are liberal organizations and ground game operations within the Democratic party network

these aren't socialist revolutionaries

these groups represent the party's base

Schumer during this meeting said it was off the record only to then turn around and leak the meeting to Axios, a right of center news outlet to attempt to shame

Again

The door knocking and mobilizing groups of their own fucking party

But it's now known you can traumatize democratic moderates by doing what is expected of a constituent

calling them and asking them about policy or literally doing what Republicans do while in the minority by exploiting house and Senate procedure to delay

It may not get them to do their jobs but you can give them a heart attack

keep calling them and demand leadership step down, it may or may not work, but apparently it's causing psychic damage that's a good enough reason to do it