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It’s only been days since an audacious U.S. raid snatched Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> from a Venezuelan military base and sped him to a Brooklyn prison, yet Detroit-area Trump supporter Aaron Tobin can already see it all playing out on the big screen.<\/p>\n It’ll be the subject of movies for years to come, he predicts. \u201cI am thrilled.\u201d Plenty of others who voted for President Donald Trump and spoke to The Associated Press about the raid are applauding, too \u2014 at least for now. <\/p>\n The seizure of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader and his wife has forced another reckoning on the \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d coalition, already rocked by the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files<\/a> and strained by rising health insurance premiums<\/a> and living costs.<\/p>\n Trump promised his voters that \u201cAmerica First\u201d would stand against more foreign entanglements. Instead, he intervened with force and without congressional approval in a new frontier, a South American capital so far from Washington that Google Maps says it \u201ccan’t seem to find a way there.\u201d <\/p>\n The geopolitical action film that Tobin sees in his mind is only at its opening scene, before all the complexities of uprooting a foreign government by a U.S. president’s fiat come rushing in. U.S. forces entered and exited swiftly. But what happens next?<\/p>\n Early on, the pushback from congressional Republicans and Trump’s core constituencies has been guarded, in contrast to their uproar over the Epstein episode or the tensions coursing through Republican politics over the now-expired health insurance subsidies.<\/p>\n Against that backdrop, Trump voters interviewed by AP journalists around the country praised the operation and expressed faith in Trump’s course. But not always limitless faith. They did not all back up Trump’s claim that those who \u201cvoted for me are thrilled. They said, \u2018This is what we voted for.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI support him so far,\u201d Paul Bonner, 67, told AP while browsing at a Trump merchandise store in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. \u201cUntil he messes up, I support him.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump’s apparent willingness to stay involved in Venezuela and his intensifying rhetoric about expanding U.S. power elsewhere in the hemisphere are making some of his die-hard supporters nervous. <\/p>\n Not all of them are reaching for the popcorn yet.<\/p>\n Chase Lewis, 24, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, said the move caught him off guard and he still isn\u2019t sure whether he supports it. \u201cIt\u2019s good that they\u2019re finally freed from that dictatorship,\u201d he said of Venezuelans, \u201cbut I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to cost us.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI don\u2019t want my friends that are serving right now to be dragged into a war because we went and stuck our nose in Venezuela\u2019s business.\u201d He noted that Trump had campaigned against starting new wars. \u201cDepending on how you look at it,\u201d he said, \u201cthis was an act of war.\u201d<\/p>\n An electrician apprentice who gave up his delivery job because he needed to make more money, Lewis said he wants to see the Trump administration focus on bringing down costs for young people like himself. He also wants the president to make life better for veterans and worries about plunging the country into more conflicts.<\/p>\n To Trump voter Travis Garcia, leaning against his red pickup truck on a chilly evening in Castle Rock, Colorado, it\u2019s a slam-dunk. \u201cOf course I\u2019m going to be happy that they captured a dictator that\u2019s constantly sending drugs our way,\u201d he said, \u201cIf we\u2019re not gonna do it, who\u2019s gonna do it?\u201d<\/p>\n The 45-year-old, who works in remodeling, said the operation reinforces Trump’s stature as \u201ca powerful man who follows through on his word and isn\u2019t going to be shy and timid and let other countries run the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary Lussier, 48, a flight attendant from the town of Larkspur, was so amazed by the success of the mission in Venezuela that she would be OK with more such operations. She recalled videos of Venezuelans tearfully celebrating Maduro’s removal and said fewer bad leaders \u201cwould make the world a little bit lesser of a bad place.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, Lussier wouldn\u2019t want U.S. soldiers stuck in a prolonged conflict, and much of her admiration for the operation hinged less on the possible benefits to the U.S. than on the smooth efficiency and bravado of the raiders.<\/p>\n Outside a Safeway grocery store in Castle Rock, Patrick McCans, 66, said delicately that Trump’s intervention was \u201ca little contrary to what he campaigned on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to see more of a diplomatic way of making change,\u201d said the retired engineer. Still, he said, pondering for a moment, \u201cI think in this case it might have been warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead of playing ball, Maduro was \u201cplaying chicken with Trump, and Trump doesn\u2019t like chicken,\u201d he said, chuckling from beneath a Baltimore Ravens baseball cap.<\/p>\n The Colorado Trump supporters interviewed by AP all applauded the military operation\u2019s smoothness and \u201cclass,\u201d as one described it. But that support could waver if the U.S. is drawn into a longer conflict, which none of them would support. <\/p>\n Few mentioned Trump\u2019s plans for Venezuela\u2019s oil, but thought Maduro’s removal would benefit citizens and slow the drug trade and immigration to the U.S.<\/p>\n At the Golden Dawn Diner in Levittown, Pennsylvania, Ron Soto, 88, expressed unreserved faith in the president’s ability to manage what comes next. The retired tractor-trailer driver regularly visits the diner to meet friends, drink coffee and catch up.<\/p>\n Maduro is an \u201cawful man,\u201d he said. But should U.S. forces go into other countries, like Cuba, as it did in Venezuela? \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll have to,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause he (Trump) put the fear in them.\u201d<\/p>\n As for Trump’s comment at one point that his administration would \u201crun\u201d Venezuela, Soto said the president will \u201cstraighten that country out and make it into a democracy if he can. I don\u2019t know if he can.\u201d<\/p>\n At the Neshaminy Mall, in Bensalem, retired firefighter Kevin Carey, 62, pronounced himself supportive of what Trump did but aware of the risks.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say thrilled but I\u2019m cautiously optimistic,\u201d he said. Carey recalled the seizing of U.S. hostages<\/a> by Iranian revolutionaries in 1979 as an indication of what might happen if the conflict escalates. But \u201che’ll take all actions to avoid that, I believe,\u201d he said of Trump.<\/p>\n