Successful American politicians have mastered the fine art of unaccountability, but their one universal political truth is that anything Donald Trump says or does is wrong and subject to immediate condemnation. They thereby can divorce themselves from any capability for critical thinking. Upon any Trump action, like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, they immediately follow the fictitious White Rabbit down his hole into a fantasyland inhabited by Mad Hatters and equally mad March Hares.
This weekend President Trump initiated the arrest in Caracas and incarceration in New York City of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Chuck Schumer and his political fellow travelers immediately attempted to convince the public what a dangerous action for America Trump had undertaken. Either Chuck’s dementia or his candor deficiency prevented him from acknowledging that the past three administrations had repeatedly recognized the threat of Maduro’s Venezuela to the U.S.
President Obama had signed an Executive Order on March 15, 2015, placing sanctions on Venezuela and preventing certain of their officials from entering the United States. During his first administration, President Trump on March 26, 2020, announced Maduro was being indicted on charges including narco-terrorism, corruption, and drug trafficking. A $15 million reward was offered for help in capturing Maduro and his co-conspirators, which was upped to $25 million by the Biden Administration on January 10, 2025, before leaving office. That amount was increased to $50 million eight months later by the second Trump administration.
With their tirades against him, these same anti-Trump defamers never fail to take the bait Trump dangles in front of them, and they find themselves always on the side of the unsupportable. Neutralizing Venezuela destabilizes China’s influence there with Maduro gone. Maduro’s exit from Venezuela leaves Cuba with no more free oil, and their oppressive government, which allows Chinese information sources residence, should be the next regime to topple.
When Trump destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability in a single unbelievably complex mission, down the Rabbit Hole they descended to consult with the Mad Hatter for reasons to debunk the mission and accuse Trump of starting World War III. When Trump supported Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in his response to destroy Hamas after the October 7, 2023, attack on his countrymen, they joined the anti-Semitic crowd’s claims of Israeli’s Palestine genocide.
When Trump became the honest broker to end the killing in Ukraine by talking to both sides, Trump was accused of both supporting corruption in Ukraine and supporting a dictator in Russia.
When immigration or other poor social policies create law enforcement problems, like have engulfed Minnesota and its governor, they attack Trump if he or his administration seeks to correct them. If the malefactors include protected groups like immigrants of color, those enforcing the law and Trump are deemed racists. If elite universities who do not protect their Jewish students are asked to be accountable for their inaction by Trump, he is accused of impairing university free speech.
In their criticism of Trump, Schumerites enter the fantasyland of international law, Congressional approval for executive actions, or ‘this not who we are’. Nonsense literature, like Alice in Wonderland has been defined, ‘balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning’. Amplified through a compliant media whose modern practitioners often attended universities where Alice in Wonderland theories are born and nurtured, their missing critical thinking is not questioned or their accountability required.
In Alice’s Fantasyland, what is up is down, and down is up. These are the times in which we live, moving from one Alice in Wonderland moment to the next, each consuming our undivided attention.
So predictable! So boring!
TW3
January 8, 2026
John Whitmore Jenkins
