Max Boot thinks Biden should forget about winning Florida and focus on sucking up to Cuba and Venezuela

It’s not exactly breaking news that Washington Post columnist Max Boot’s brain is broken. But it should never cease to amaze anyone when he finds a new way to break it even more.

With Florida GOP Gov. and likely 2024 presidential frontrunner Ron DeSantis’ star continuing to rise, Boot sees Florida as a lost cause for Joe Biden. So, he has some advice for the current president on where the attention should be focused.

Joe Biden, if you’re listening, Max Boot thinks you should seriously consider being softer on Cuba and Venezuela.

Biden, with no hope of winning Florida in 2024 after the midterm wipeout, is now free to pursue more pragmatic policies towards Cuba and Venezuela, rather than catering to politically potent constituencies of conservative Cuban- and Venezuelan-Americans. https://t.co/vQQRKV01H7

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) November 28, 2022

“Kissing up to the commies is good for America” is certainly a take. And it’s not just a take. It’s his pinned tweet, guys:

On Saturday, the White House granted permission to Chevron to begin pumping oil again in Venezuela, with the profits going to pay that country’s creditors. This comes after the Venezuelan government met for the first time in a year with opposition representatives in Mexico City on Saturday, and the two sides vowed to resume discussions on holding elections in 2024. An administration official told me that further relaxation of sanctions will occur if Venezuela makes more progress on human rights.

That is the right policy to follow, because it has long been clear that U.S. pressure wasn’t going to overthrow the Maduro regime — any more than it has overthrown the Castro-created regime in Cuba despite a U.S. trade embargo that has now lasted more than 60 years.

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It’s time for a different approach, without having to worry about the impact on Florida politics. The same is true in Cuba: There is no good reason not to normalize relations with Havana and lift the terrorism designation.

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I’m all for prioritizing human rights in foreign policy, but we need to do so in ways that make a difference rather than engaging in symbolic, self-defeating gestures designed for domestic political advantage. The Democratic rout in Florida finally makes more rational policymaking possible toward Cuba and Venezuela.

What? No, seriously. What the hell?

Yikes at this take.

According to Boot, the only thing that was keeping Biden from openly supporting left-wing dictators in Latin and South America was the possibility of winning Florida. pic.twitter.com/ropa1AfLn9

— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 29, 2022

Boot’s take is wrong on multiple levels. Egregiously wrong. It’s also straight-up terrible and deeply disturbing.

No mention here that lifting sanctions on #Cuba and #Venezuela, which are in practical terms a single entity, provides a portal for #Russia, #Iran, and #China to circumvent the sanctions on them, too, and to further embed their spy-terrorist networks in the Western Hemisphere. https://t.co/QXty7NeoRj

— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) November 29, 2022

It's also exceptionally disappointing for @MaxBoot to quote an academic falsely blaming the "humanitarian disasters" in #Cuba and #Venezuela on US sanctions without any push-back. And ahistorical to pretend backing the Contras was not key to getting the Sandinistas out in 1990.

— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) November 29, 2022

Max Boot needs to have a serious heart-to-heart with himself like 20 years ago. Maybe his past self can talk some sense into his current one.

This is one of those out loud moments. Wow. https://t.co/4WuY4uw34V

— Where woke goes to die☢️🇺🇸 (@Mschings) November 29, 2022

Talk about a mask-off moment. https://t.co/CO2TnEcF0J

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) November 29, 2022

Major mask-off moment. Geez, Max. What the hell happened to you?

In re: @allahpundit's piece yesterday about conservatism being embarrassing, apparently Max Boot is so embarrassed he now is a supporter of the murderous regimes of Cuba and Venezuela.

No thank you. https://t.co/cuVIvQWGFe

— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) November 29, 2022

"I'm so embarrassed by Donald Trump I now support killing babies at nine months gestation, banning all semiautomatic firearms, support murderous dictators in Latin America and the Middle East, and teach seven year olds about gender dysphoria" is not the own you think it is.

— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) November 29, 2022

It’s really not.

And Max Boot is not the good guy he thinks he is.