Now, 200 years after President James Monroe first promulgated his dictate giving the Yankees dominion of the rest of the hemisphere, a congressional resolution calls for annulling the Monroe Doctrine and replacing it with a “new good neighbor” policy. The intent is to “foster improved relations and deeper, more effective cooperation” with our neighbor nations.
Thanks in large part to American weakness, wars are spreading across the world. Europe and the Middle East are on fire, Asia is tense and now, closer to home, another dictator threatens to up-end a great nation just a three-hour flight from Miami, in Guyana.
For all the Left’s shrill rhetoric about thwarted popular majorities, the Electoral College and contingent House votes substantiate a foundational constitutional tenet federalism.