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The full quote from the article is even worse:

" I want to be clear on where I stand. I believe both Nicolas Maduro and Miguel Diaz-Canel are dictators. Their administrations have stifled free and fair elections, jailed political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press. And yet, our federal government's long history of punitive policies toward both countries, including extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans and the continuation of a decades long blockade of Cuba, have only worsened these conditions. Democratic socialism is about dignity, justice and accountability. And above all, it's about building a democracy that works for working people, not one that preys on them."

"Democratic socialists" are some of the most annoying people in western politics because not only are they not socialists in actual practice, they by definition of the moniker make it sound like there's a version of socialism that is not democratic. They throw under the bus international socialists specifically, and more broadly, countries that are self-determining in the face of imperialism, in order to win some points with a largely already-ignorant population to get minor capitalism reform electoral victories. When they do succeed at all, they only further entrench the miasma of pain that is mass political illiteracy.