Perspective: Code Pink used the Venezuelan Embassy as an anti-Trump prop. Now the show is over.
By Petula Dvorak Petula Dvorak Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist May 16 at 2:31 PM Code Pink activists are all about the visuals — those pink pussy hats, the huge, dancing vaginas outside the White House, the hands smeared with fake blood at Senate hearings.
On Thursday, police finally pulled the protesters out of the building, more than a month after they took up residence. This was after embattled President Nicolás Maduro won reelection, despite presiding over the unraveling of what had once been one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations. You’ve read the stories of staggering poverty, violence and hunger that is feeding a historic exodus out of Venezuela. It’s a humanitarian calamity.Yeah, most of the world thought so too. So they backed the new guy who swept in and said he was going to take over.
So why did a bunch of American activists get involved in this, when our own country’s democratic institutions are being challenged, one by one? Shouldn’t the pink pussies be in Alabama right now? It reminds Benjamin of Iraq in 2003, when Saddam Hussein was in power and the Iraqi people begged for U.S. intervention.
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