54% of the population supported the Maduro government in the election.[1] If you think Trump is taking the "correct action," you're against democracy at this point.
[1] https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-election-resu...
[1] https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-election-resu...
"...key opposition candidates in the governor's races in Venezuela are gradually accepting the results as legitimate, except for one controversial close race that is being challenged in the State of Bolivar where opposition has some serious allegations due to the discrepancy in the results that the CNE announced, that's the election commission in Venezuela, the results that they announce and the printout of the report that was given to each party by the voting machines."
"ALEXANDER MAIN: First of all, it's really nothing new... Already in 2002, much of the corporate media internationally was suggesting that the presidency of Chávez had become something of a dictatorship and completely ignoring some of the anti-democratic activities of the opposition parties in Venezuela, and namely a coup d'etat was supported by most of Venezuela's opposition parties in April of 2002. This was initially represented as some sort of a popular uprising against the dictatorship, and it was really, I think, thanks to the reaction of other governments in the region that clearly saw that there was a coup d'etat that the narrative began to change around that.
"Soon afterwards, we got back into this tradition of suggesting that there was creeping authoritarianism going on in Venezuela. Very little was said about the fact that nearly every year, sometimes twice a year in Venezuela, you had elections being held at different institutional levels. These elections would typically have very big turnouts, they'd be very transparent, very free and fair... In fact, it can be argued that the electoral system in Venezuela has gotten more and more refined in terms of the degree of transparency, to the extent that in fact, it [speaks] in part to that transparency and the internal checks and balances that today you do have this controversy in the state of Bolivar... They can do this, in fact, because they have records from electronic voting machines, which everyone believes... the fact is that you have a system that's in place that can very easily allow for verification... It really is sort of a direct contradiction of this constant claim that the country is slipping into dictatorship. You don't have that when you have constant elections in which people, the majority of voters participate and where you can have confidence in the results."
[1] http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=...
And yet... Well, these days their reporting looks like:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/venezuela-maduro-helicopt...
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/venezuela-elections-chave...
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/venezuela-crisis-maduro-o...
You don't have to be a capitalist imperialist to recognize that this particular government has abandoned legitimacy and the interests of the people.
In a recent article, Mike Gonzalez pronounced the Bolivarian Revolution dead: “This project has failed.” Needless to say, this cavalier suggestion would come as a surprise to those on the ground... Gonzalez begins with a strange conspiracy theory: that a helicopter attack against government targets was really a false flag operation carried out by the government itself. Unfortunately for him, this unsubstantiated innuendo — which echoed right-wing talking points — didn’t age well: less than a week later, Oscar Pérez made an appearance at an opposition rally.
It continues,
By portraying a chaotic constellation of facts without explaining their causes, by heaping blame onto the government while letting the opposition and imperialism off the hook, Gonzalez’s account shares much with its professed adversaries... left almost entirely out of this picture are the hundreds of thousands struggling for socialism on the grassroots level and having to make difficult decisions — with real consequences — amid the crisis of the present.
And your third source explicitly calls "to reject any and all calls for imperialist interventions aimed at 'saving' Venezuela." In conclusion it calls for us
to stand in solidarity with the majority of Venezuelans who are suffering at the hands of a vengeful, reckless opposition, and an incompetent, unaccountable government. There is little doubt popular-class support for the government has declined in recent years... It is equally clear popular-class support for the opposition remains limited, likely due to the popular classes’ well-founded distrust of and disgust towards the opposition, and particularly its violent, leading edge.
In short, they had an election where the people had to make some hard choices, like many democracies. Your sources do not dispute the validity of the election. A foreign country undermining an election in support of the violent opposition, which was explicitly rejected by the popular vote, is objectively not "in the interests of the people."
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/world/2017/9/19/16189742/ve...
This is not true. The high-water mark for the Nazis was 43.9% in the 1933 election, far short of a majority. Hitler was appointed chancellor in a shady backroom deal and shortly afterwards banned all other political parties.