Socialist Congressional Nominees Join International Leftist Push Against Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’

So DSA-backed congressional hopefuls are hopping a plane to Uruguay to strategize against American foreign policy with a coalition of foreign leftists, and we're supposed to treat this as just another campaign trip. It isn't. These are people asking to represent American districts in Congress, and their first instinct is to go abroad and coordinate with international activists on how to undermine a sitting president's hemispheric agenda. That's not solidarity. That's a preview of where their loyalties sit when the pressure is on.

Call it the "Donroe Doctrine" if you want to mock it, but the substance is Trump pushing back on the drift toward Chinese and Iranian influence in Latin America and reasserting that our own backyard actually matters to us again. You can disagree with the tactics. Plenty of serious people do. But going to a socialist conference in Montevideo to build an "international leftist push" against it isn't disagreement, it's alignment with a bloc that has spent decades cheering on every government in the region hostile to American interests.

Valdez, Chevalier, and Rabb aren't fringe protest figures. They're candidates who've already won primaries and are on track for actual office. Voters in their districts deserve to know that before they cast a ballot, not after. If your foreign policy playbook starts with flying to a socialist summit to plot against your own country's hemispheric strategy, that's worth knowing.

We don't expect every nominee to agree with Trump's approach to Latin America. Debate is healthy. But there's a difference between critiquing a policy from Washington and joining forces with foreign activists to organize against it. One is politics. The other looks a lot like picking a side, and it isn't ours.