Democrats’ Hypocrisy on the Bolivian Coup Is Truly Staggering
For Democrats, taking a stand for democracy requires prosecuting coup plotters wherever and whenever they show their seditious faces. This rule holds fast except for in Bolivia, where prosecuting coup plotters apparently amounts to authoritarianism.
Supporters of Bolivian president Luis Arce mobilized against sectors that expressed their support for the governor of Santa Cruz Luis Fernando Camacho, who was arrested on December 28 for being considered a promoter of the 2019 coup. La Paz, Bolivia, January 10, 2023.(Luis Gandarillas / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Pop quiz: Was the kind of thing that took place on January 6, 2021 an attempt to overturn democracy, and should those who planned and directed it be prosecuted?
If you’re a Democratic politician, the answer is apparently: “It depends on who does it, and where.”
It turns out there’s a pretty simple litmus test to follow. See, if it’s Donald Trump and the Republicans trying to do this in the United States, it’s a coup. Their claims about election fraud are obviously bunk, and both the high-level officials who planned the attempt and the random, low-level riffraff who they manipulated into assisting them should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law (though only the latter group will actually have the book thrown at them, of course).
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