Nancy R.’s Reviews > Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela > Status Update

In the United States, the Republican dream was to starve the beast, to cut government financing so deeply that most of the things we expect a government to do become impossible. Then theoretically society and private initiative can flourish unencumbered. This was Venezuela. ... The irony was that Republicans in the United States considered Maduro their enemy. They should have been applauding him.