Florida’s foreign policy hard-liners are celebrating this week.

President Donald Trump has dispatched three U.S. Navy destroyers to waters off Venezuela in a bid to confront narcotics cartels linked to the Maduro regime. In a state heavily influenced by the Venezuelan American communities — a voting bloc that prizes anti-socialist posturing — leaders are seizing on this moment.

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody hailed the move, saying it demonstrated that “America’s days of turning a blind eye to drug trafficking are over,” pointing to the deployment as a decisive strike “at the source” of fentanyl and other deadly substances.

U.S Rep. Carlos Giménez leaned in even harder, posting that the deployment has tightened the “noose” around “dictator Nicolás Maduro & his narco regime.”

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