Joaquin Castro
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I've been saying for years that they've been laying the groundwork to take military action in Mexico.
In fact, there was an AUMF that was proposed by one of the Republicans in Congress even a few years ago, reclassifying fentanyl, for example, like all of these different steps, designating some of the cartels as terrorists that would then justify the president, Donald Trump, basically declaring some kind of war or taking military action.
And so, yeah, I mean, I think I'm hoping we're going to stay united, but we're going to see in the next few weeks.
Absolutely, yes, because I think for a lot of them in their minds, they're having to do a 180.
Because remember, they got behind Trump as the peace president.
I mean, he went after Jeb Bush hard, remember, in 2016, basically held all of the George W. Bush actions with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan against Jeb Bush, successfully, by the way, and even took on Hillary Clinton with the same argument.
I mean, there were newspaper articles and columns even speculating about whether Donald Trump was more of a dove than Hillary Clinton back in 2016.
He criticized Biden along the same lines in their contest in 2020.
So a lot of his base is having to do this 180.
A lot of them are doing that 180.
They're coming along with him.
But there's some that I can see and even a few folks that I've talked to who are like,
It's kind of like their eyebrows are raised, right?
Like they're confused.
Well, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I thought, I thought we stood for the other thing.
Like not, not, not globalism, not intervention, you know, the U S minding its own business, not being the policeman of the world and so forth.
But yeah, I don't like, I think Donald Trump for him, at least,